More recent direct democracy proposals tend to focus on voting schemes (usually high tech) that would allow widespread, virtually continual voting by millions of citizens on whatever proposals surfaced.
Only one book (Order of the Phoenix) topped 200,000 words, but there were two books that came close with more than 190,000 words (Goblet of Fire and Deathly Hallows). When added all together, the Harry Potter books contain 1,084,170 words.
This averages to about 22 to 23 chapters per novel, with the average chapter length around 4,280 words. For information on word counts in the entire Harry Potter Series, Twilight Saga, and The Hunger Games trilogy, grab a copy of my free e-book: