Sentence:  Democracies did particularly badly against <WSD>lateralism</WSD>, because their politicians were working to very short agendas. They did nothing decisive to save the ecospherre, as everything had to be balanced to appease competing interests. <WSD>Lateralism</WSD> ignored wealth. Soon, there were only guards, goods, and obscenely rich people left in conventional economies. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An organizational structure in which competing interests of equal power negotiate with each other.