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.
Some of the most common saw characters repeatedly make last-ditch efforts to save their skin when something is wrong. There are three books in The Hunger Games series which, according to Slate, have a very similar word count of 101,200 words, 101,900 words, and 102,700 words. In comparison the books in the Harry Potter series varies considerably in length with the final Harry Potter book more than twice as long as the first.