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Date: 2009-06-27 14:04 (UTC)From:The transformation from Republic to Empire was a) gradual (it went on for several centuries) and b) evolutionary (the Empire was the direct result of improvements in administrative technology made during the Republican era). Hence, to describe it as "falling" is wrong.
it was no longer governed democratically even among the political elite,
The Republic was never democratic even in the Hellenic sense, and certainly not in any modern sense. If anything, the late Empire was closer to modern democracy than the Republic ever was.