"popular power" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means "the power of the people," as opposed to the power of government, and is often used to describe political systems or ideologies that give more power to the citizens than to the government. For example, you could say, "The citizens of this country practice a form of popular power, wherein they have the freedom to express their opinions and be heard."
So BEA instead installed Popular Power's software and a testing program on 50 powerful Windows NT boxes in its San Francisco offices.
The most popular power tools are the electric drill and the electric circular saw.
But they, as much as the government, despise and fear popular power and democratic institutions.
Popular power has continued to be a profound force for change.
That fear signifies their recognition that popular power is real enough to overturn regimes and rewrite the social contract.
Inoue is a master of communications as well as power; he understands and manipulates the popular power of symbols.
Situated in a room that is a popular power-breakfast hub, Feinstein's at Loews Regency has been marginally profitable, but its value to the hotel in terms of prestige and visibility is incalculable, said Jonathan M. Tisch, the chairman and chief executive of the Loews hotel chain.
The Wolseley has a similar crowd, menu and surroundings — stake out a table on an upper level for great people watching, especially during its popular power-breakfast hours.
Tribute is a popular power-dining spot for executives at the Big Three car companies– General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler –and was named one of America's best restaurants by Gourmet magazine from 1997-2003.
It delivers neither democratic power nor popular deliberation.
Two years after reading Dana Spiotta's "Stone Arabia," I'm still annoyed that I will never get to discover the music of the rock savant Nik Worth, who (in the novel) once fronted an almost-popular power-pop band called the Fakes and later created a homemade 20-volume album series called "The Ontology of Worth," which would almost certainly be world-famous if only anyone had ever heard it.
