Change, Evolution, Revolution of Political Order

I thought about opening a line on political orders after I read 张杰：论中共政权的脆断. Clearly this article was well-written. However, this topic is very difficult. This topic has obviously practical implications, such as democratic transition of China. Several years earlier I was more optimistic. I wrote a series of articles on democratization [2-5]. Later I became more pessimistic after studied literatures and discussed with fellow Mainland Chinese. There are a great many challenges and Mainland Chinese have so little knowledge about political science and economics. If you have followed my recent articles and posts, you would know that now I am not optimistic about democratization of China. 

However, a line collects links to changes, evolutions, or revolutions of political systems might be useful. I also list of articles on comparisons of different systems. 

References: 

1. 张杰：论中共政权的脆断

2. 自由民主制与基督教

3. 民主适合非基督教国家吗？

4. 伊斯兰国家民主转型初探

5. 探讨中国的民主转型前途

6.  刘瑜：委内瑞拉这个国家是如何毁掉的？

7. Jordan Peterson and Axel Kaiser - You Can't Vote Your Way Out of Socialism (8-29)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXodyB-KqZk (To certain extent, this result is implied in Hayek’s book, The Road to Serfdom. This is not always the case but potentially a slippery slope)  

8. Michael Malice - Why the Soviet Union Collapsed (8-31-2024)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d76BbBXBWA