We study how the number of ballot propositions affects the quality of decision making in direct democracy, as reflected … in citizens' knowledge, voting behavior, and attitudes toward democracy. Using three comprehensive data sets from … federal direct democracy. In the medium to longer term, more federal propositions on the ballot rather relate to higher …

This paper examines the effect of local political decision-making institutions (i.e., direct democracy vs …. representative democracy) on citizens' preferences toward public spending. Exogenous variation in institutions comes from a … democracy based on a legally stipulated population threshold in the Swiss canton (state) of Vaud. Fiscal policy preferences by …

allows us to focus on revealed preferences for direct democracy and to identify factors which explain this preference …. Empirical results suggests support for direct democracy is rather related to dissatisfaction with representative democracy in …