

Through a case study of prospective pre-school teachers preparing to study abroad, the article shows how personal, professional and even national goals are closely interwoven. imaginaries of 'Western' education to redefine themselves as independent individuals in an increasingly globalised and individualised world. Students draw on this narrative to interpret their own educational histories and prior experiences, while at the same time making use of. The national political environment for their decision to go abroad is shaped by an official narrative of China's transition to a more creative and innovative economy.

The article focuses on Chinese students' hopes and expectations before leaving to study abroad. A further comprehensive research is needed on the multi-layered and the complex relationship among democracy and the resilience of the political order. The test results indicate that Granger-causality runs one-way from political freedom and civil liberty to political instability and not the other way. The test results indicate that the level of political freedom and civil liberty Granger-cause the level of political instability, while the level of political instability does not Granger-cause the level of political freedom and civil liberty. The paper also presented a Granger-causality test of political instability and the level of political freedom and civil liberty. The empirical results of the paper confirm the hypothesis that democracy is conducive to political stability the higher the level of political freedom and civil liberty, the more stable countries are. paper explores empirically, whether political freedom and civil liberty (a proxy for democracy) has any effect on the stability of the political order. Using a multitude of political instability variables, this. Therefore, the current literature is silent on whether democracies are more fragile or less susceptible to economic and political breakdowns.

The current literature has failed to differentiate between the collapse of democratic and authoritarian rules or whether democratic regimes collapse for the same reasons as do authoritarian regimes.
