G.K. Chesterton once said, "All real democracy is an attempt (like that of a jolly hostess) to bring the shy people out." This was quoted in Maurice Pope's *The Keys to Democracy* and re-quoted in [[Reference Notes/Books/Politics Without Politicians|Politics Without Politicians]]. Contrast this with how Joseph Schumpeter defined democracy 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."