sounds about right to me

[idlechic]

"the deciding of issues by the electorate [is made] secondary to the election of the men who are to do the deciding. to put it differently we now take the view that the role of the people is to produce a goverment...and we define the democratic method as that institutional arrangement for arriving at political decisions in which individuals acquire the power to decide by means of a competitive struggle for the people's vote"

-- joseph schumpeter, 1943