No society will grow or develop when the leaders or government aren't doing their job right.
But if our leaders should failed us, we shouldn't also fail ourself, we have to stand on our feet and make our voice heard, we also need to make it all of our own self and be less dependent of them, when we know our right, then we are going to take up the challenge and fight on our own in getting what we want without having to depend on anyone to do that for us, if the governance is bad, we should not remain being poor because that is not enough reason for us to be.
The policies of a bad government has a way of affecting the efforts of the citizens that they can't really find growth under those bad policies because these are laws that guides and regulates their activities in the country. You could be striving three times harder and earning below 1 quarter as profit.
In the case that the citizens may want to revolt it could lead to significant crisis, and with the government having and controlling all the instruments of violence in the country they will always find a way to gag or subdue any form of uproar thereby creating fears towards any future revolt attempts. It's democracy in paper but autocracy in reality . That's how many governments now operates.