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Does direct democracy increase communicative responsiveness? A field experiment with Swiss politicians Anouk Lloren First Published March 27, 2017, Sage, Research and Politics Article Information Volume: 4 issue: 1, Article first published online: March 27, 2017;Issue published: January 1, 2017 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168017700738 Anouk Llorenanouk.lloren@gmail.com Swiss National Science Foundation, Bern, Switzerland This article was distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). Abstract Many argue that direct democracy improves the quality of democracy. In particular, many scholars claim that it increases the representation of the public’s preferences by fost