Korach’s rebellion against Moses is the prime example of the importance of respecting authority and knowing your place.
Counter examples have been known to exist. Particularly in the goyishe world; some people like power. And these are the people who obtain power because it is what guides every judgment they make. What decision will maximize my (risk adjusted) power expectation? Many leaders answer this before every decision; because this is the thought process for getting to the powerful position in the first place.
Often when an entity obtains power they build defenses against any potential challenger. “I jumped into the volcano when i was a young man to prove my worthiness for leadership: It is an accepted law; anyone who would become leader must jump into the volcano too.”
While it is perceptibly advantageous to minimize social uncertainty by having consistent leadership; and minimize challenges to leadership because they invariably divide a community and leave it vulnerable to third party attacks. The problem of entrenchment still exists.
An incumbent can measure the cost of social uncertainty caused by a change in leadership, e.g. the price premium of acquiring enough outstanding shares to organize a hostile takeover, and weigh this cost against the level of leer jet country club, or nubile sex, or sadistic whatever they might enjoy.
In this line of thinking; it would seem socially advantageous to minimize the cost of changing leadership. Note that the cost of changing leadership are explicitly different from the cost of challenging leadership. The cost of changing leadership is quite low if the cost of challenging leadership is ‘jumping into a volcano’ because the expectation of any change is very low.
On the other hand; it seems there must be some minimum acceptable uncertainty; orthodox Jews I suspect would let this be a validated sign from heaven. The Goyishe might take a vote periodically.