 Four caveats before the section ends: First, despite their concerns about unlimited democracy, neoliberals want to protect democratic rights. One problem they have with expansive states is that large states reduce the effectiveness of each person’s vote. This is because large governments cannot balance their many tasks and cannot secure agreement on top priorities. The result, Hayek argues, will be democratic instability, leading to dictatorship. In contrast to more egalitarian liberals, neoliberals do not attempt to engineer the democratic process through democratic deliberation. They instead hope to protect democratic rights by adopting constitutional constraints later in the democratic process, for example by restricting the power to legislate. Second, while neoliberals support restrictions on democracy, they strongly favor decentralizing of political power and ensuring that power is held by all and they are committed to protections from governmental and corporate predation and domination. As Friedman notes,