How World Leaders Can Lose Power

This is what I learned about how world leaders can lose their power when I took a Cultural Anthropology course in college:

1. Loss of prestige of established authority, often as a result of the failure of foreign policy, financial difficulties, dismissals of popular ministers, or alteration of popular policies.

2. Threat to recent economic improvement.

3. Indecisiveness of gov't, as exemplified by lack of consistent policy.

4. Loss of support of the intellectual class.

5. A leader or group of leaders with charisma enough to mobilize a substantial part of the population against the establishment.

In democratic countries like America if the citizens don't like the leader they can vote him out of office. If you examine the polls about Obama he looks like he has the first three conditions. Not sure about condition #4. If you mean college professors and the lame stream media he still has their support. But I don't think that really matters so much anymore. If the lame stream media doesn't support him anymore that could cause trouble for him. As for condition #5, I haven't seen a charismatic leader yet. Maybe Sarah Palin.

In autocratic countries like Iran, China, and Venezuela a revolution has to happen. Then the leader either gets exiled or gets killed.