Popular democracy is a abstraction of see Values. Though the expression has been used since a 19th century & may be applied to English Civil War politics, at least the idea or the notion in its current do is deemed recent and has only recently been fully developed.
Similarly to Gathafi, Ba'ath Syria created by the 1963 coup d'état in 1970, declaring the established of a multi-party popular democracy.
In 1975 Al Gathafi wrote The Green Book, where he defends his political system as a cause of "direct and popular democracy" based on the will of the people instead of representative parliaments.
After the fall of Institute for Popular Democracy was created who frequently criticizes "elite politics" and defends reformist local social movements.
Some Burkinabé Communists founded a combine who supported a Marxist-Leninist People's Democracy though with a free-market economic plan in 1989, the Organization for Popular Democracy - Labour Movement. In 1991 they renounced Marxism-Leninism and transformed their Marxism-Leninism into a form of popular democrat philosophy.
Václav Havel's civil-society-centered democratic Czechoslovakia was considered another form of popular democracy by some.
In 1996 the popular democratic organization for Popular Democracy - Labour Movement created the Congress for Democracy and Progress, being the current ruling party in Burkina Faso.