You say you want an evolution (punctuated equilibriam)
Dan Darling writing at WoC made a comment that someone should really be collecting information about how people-power movements like we’ve seen in Lebanon, Ukraine, and Georgia the the last couple of years, ahve managed to get off the gound, leading a commenter to post information about Otpor’s struggle against Milosevic, and the fascinating history of this group in training and promoting pro-freedom movements in other countries. Of particular interest seems to be Gene Sharp’s book From Dictatorship to Democracy which is availalble online in numerous languages from the Albert Einstein Institution.