An idea i've heard and liked is to allow direct democracy like you've described, but also allow anyone to select any representative that they want (they're brot

An idea i've heard and liked is to allow direct democracy like you've described, but also allow anyone to select any representative that they want (they're brother, someone with a good history, etc). Allow them to override their representitive wherever they want, and change their representitive whenever they want. This gets you direct democracy without as much tedium.