Editing Regime change (section)

{{Short description|Forced replacement of one government with another}}
{{distinguish|Regime shift|Government formation|Election|Peaceful transition of power}}
'''Regime change''' is the partly forcible or coercive replacement of one government [[regime]] with another. Regime change may replace all or part of the [[State (polity)|state's]] most critical leadership system, administrative apparatus, or [[bureaucracy]]. Regime change may occur through domestic processes, such as [[revolution]], [[coup d'état|coup]], or reconstruction of government following [[Failed state|state failure]] or [[civil war]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hale|first=Henry E.|date=2013-05-10|title=Regime Change Cascades: What We Have Learned from the 1848 Revolutions to the 2011 Arab Uprisings|journal=Annual Review of Political Science|volume=16|issue=1|pages=331–353|doi=10.1146/annurev-polisci-032211-212204|issn=1094-2939|doi-access=free}}</ref> It can also be imposed on a country by foreign actors through invasion, [[Interventionism (politics)|overt]] or [[covert interventions]], or [[coercive diplomacy]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Downes|first=Alexander B.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c-giEAAAQBAJ|title=Catastrophic Success: Why Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Goes Wrong|date=2021|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=978-1-5017-6115-7|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last1=Levin|first1=Dov|last2=Lutmar|first2=Carmela|date=2020|title=Violent Regime Change: Causes and Consequences|url=https://oxfordre.com/politics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228637-e-1954|website=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics|language=en|doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1954|isbn=978-0-19-022863-7}}</ref> Regime change may entail the construction of new institutions, the restoration of old institutions, and the promotion of new [[Ideology|ideologies]].<ref name=":0" />

According to a dataset by Alexander Downes, 120 leaders were removed through foreign-imposed regime change between 1816 and 2011.<ref name=":0" />