Direct democracy is extraordinarily popular and has become a pervasive policymaking tool at the state and local level … variable, we model the extent to which institutional evaluations of direct democracy influence voting behavior in ballot … direct democracy are more likely to vote yes, while those who are apprehensive about voting on ballot measures are more …

dilemma situations, even if selection bias is controlled for. Past experimental work used direct democracy as the form of the … decision-making process. But is there such a democracy effect when people democratically select representatives that take some … computer randomly in each group. Our data indicates that there is no (or at most negative) impact of representative democracy …

arguments describe a federalist approach for eliminating partisan gerrymandering, a major bug in American democracy …

Pivato and Soh [Pivato, M., Soh, A., 2020. Weighted representative democracy. Journal of Mathematical Economics 88 …, the decisions made by the legislature will be the same as the decisions that would have been reached by a direct democracy …

We assess the capacity of gerrymandering to undermine the will of the people in a representative democracy. Citizens …