Link to "Chinese Democracy Isn't Inevitable" (The Atlantic) which can't be used:

"The top of the China model is characterized by political meritocracy—the idea that high-level officials should be selected and promoted on the basis of ability and virtue."

Republics essentially are like this. The Founding Fathers wanted only a small percentage of the overall population to hold power. These top level men were landowners.

So generally the goal is fewer people holding power and those people have higher virtue than average.

Degenerate Marxism / Feminism / Racism seeks the opposite goals by calling virtue privilege and then trying to destroy virtue.