This monograph studies the implications that institutions of direct democracy have on the happiness of a society, in a framework where the authority is interested both in implementing its ideal policy and in its re-election. It is shown that, in cases where authorities have full information about the social distribution of opinions, political activity drives a positive measure of authority types to choose the socially preferred policy. It is, also, shown that if the authority possesses a relatively low level of information about the distribution of opinions of the society, referenda in a...