Representative democracy implies that politics is channeled through institutions because they have the ability to make decisions in a more conducive atmosphere, to follow established procedures and create checks and balances among themselves – possibilities that are not completely applicable to any form of “direct democracy”. The credibility of the system is achieved by the experience that institutions actually do what they are created for. Decision making outside the institutions destroys credibility. Term limits therefore interfere with three main premises of modern democratic representation: 1) that professionalization of representatives is desired and favourable for democratic government, 2) that representatives are more responsive to voters’ demands when they are more independent from their political party’s leadership, and 3) that career perspectives of representatives shape their political behaviour.