What is the best way to evaluate the success of an independence movement? Is Independence simply a change of government or a change of who has power?

The best way to assess the success of an independence movement is to look at whether the movement has achieved its goals and whether the nation has managed to establish itself as an independent nation.

Independence can be considered as a change of government accompanied by the change of who has power.

Explanation:

Independence movements can be observed in nations that were colonies of other countries and had all their territory and political power submitted to the government of that other country.

As you can see, no colony was satisfied with its political situation and that is why they raised independence movements, so that they can get rid of the judgment of the countries that governed them and that they could establish their own government that would fight for the interests of the citizens of the colonies.

Most of the independence movements tried to get rid of a country with a monarchical system (where the king had all the political power) to become a republic (where the people had the political power and was represented by politicians). For this reason, we can say that independence represented a change in government along with a change in who has power.

You can assess the success of an independence movement by looking at whether that movement has achieved its goals and whether the nation has managed to establish itself as independent.