excluded from the voters' right of the initiative? I study this question by extending the analysis to German direct democracy … 2009, I show that in this sample and in contrast to the Swiss and US evidence direct democracy causes an expansion of local … towards exploiting their direct democracy rights and their preferences for local public policies. To address this issue I use …

deal with questions related to direct democracy, chapters three and four are about topics linked to representative … democracy. …

. In that paper, we argue that there are four possible mechanisms related to direct democracy that could lead to this …

excluded from the voters' right of the initiative? I study this question by extending the analysis to German direct democracy … 2009, I show that in this sample - and in contrast to the Swiss and US evidence - direct democracy causes an expansion of … their propensity towards exploiting their direct democracy rights and their preferences for local public policies. To …