Leapfrogging (Economic, social, Democracy and freedom)

Wikipedia has the fallowing on the concept of leapfrogging
"...The concept of leapfrogging was originally used in the context of economic growth theories and industrial-organization innovation studies with specific focus on competition among firms. It is based on Joseph Schumpeter's notion of ‘gales of creative destruction’.[1] The hypothesis proposes that companies holding monopolies based on incumbent technologies have less incentive to innovate than potential rivals, and therefore they eventually lose their technological leadership role when new radical technological innovations are adopted by new firms which are ready to take the risks. When the radical innovations eventually become the new technological paradigm, the newcomer companies leapfrog ahead of former leading firms.
More recently the concept of leapfrogging is being used in the context of sustainable development for developing countries as a theory of development which may accelerate development by skipping inferior, less efficient, more expensive or more polluting technologies and industries and move directly to more advanced ones. It is proposed that through leapfrogging developing countries can avoid environmentally harmful stages of development and do not need to follow the polluting development trajectory of industrialied countries.[2] The adoption of solar energy technologies in developing countries are examples of where countries do not repeat the mistakes of highly industrialized countries in creating an energy infrastructure based on fossil fuels, but "jump" directly into the Solar Age..."
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So the question is would it possible to apply this concept to social and political change. Would it possible to replace totalitarian and repressive systems by free and democratic systems in an undeveloped country like ours without going through the traditional liberation, revolution phase?Technology is the enabler for the economic leapfrogging. What is the parallel new social technology which would enable social and political leapfrogging?What is expected of the players in this process?Is social and political leapfrogging tied to the technological and economic leapfrogging?