This would have meant popular elections for the first time alongside surviving appointed peers. (democraticaudit.com)
He believed that the way the people expressed their political will, short of riot and revolution, was through popular elections. (religion-online.org)
His yardstick for measuring democracy, however, is primarily one of national election, Western - style, while China «remains one of the very few countries in the world today that does not even pretend to choose its leaders by popular election» (p. xi). (religion-online.org)