If a government with limited democracy steadily expands these freedoms, it should not be branded a dictatorship.

Article two provides for limited direct democracy through the initiative, referendum, and recall, establishing a process for all three.

It's a limited democracy, or guided democracy, under the very firm hand of Arafat.

Don't discourage the efforts of the Burmese rulers to provide limited democracy.

Pakistan has been run by military dictatorships for large periods of time, alternating with limited democracy.

Many representative democracies provide limited direct democracy through referendum, initiative, and recall.

The election was an exercise of limited democracy.

Venice adopted an oligarchic, 'parliamentary' system in an attempt at limited democracy.

The choice for China is not about limited capitalism or limited democracy.

But ultimately, analysts say, given Pakistan's limited democracy, the criticism will have no outlet.