Središnji je cilj rada ustanoviti u kojoj je mjeri i na koje načine koncept izravne demokracije bio tema znanstvenog i stručnog istraživačkog interesa u okviru hrvatske političke znanosti. Analiza je obuhvatila članke objavljene u politološkim znanstvenim i stručnim časopisima u razdoblju od 1990. do 2020. godine. Glavni je nalaz provedene analize da je izravna demokracija bila na marginama istraživačkih interesa hrvatske politologije. To je posebice vidljivo ukoliko se opseg tematiziranja izravne demokracije usporedi s tematiziranjem različitih institucija predstavničke demokracije. Hrvatska politologija primarno je fokusirana na model predstavničke demokracije, a tek sporadično se bavi izravnom demokracijom. Dodatno, provedena analiza pokazuje da hrvatski politolozi na izravnu demokraciju dominantno gledaju negativno, te su vrlo oprezni prema njenom eventualnom češćem korištenju u hrvatskoj politici. The main goal of the paper is to establish to what extent and in what ways the concept of direct democracy was a topic of scientific and professional research interest within the Croatian political science. The analysis included articles published in scientific and professional political science journals in the period from 1990 to 2020. The main finding of the conducted analysis is that direct democracy was on the margins of the research interests of Croatian political science. This is particularly visible if the extent of the thematization of direct democracy is compared with the thematization of various institutions of representative democracy. Croatian political science is primarily focused on the model of representative democracy, and only sporadically deals with direct democracy. In addition, the analysis carried out shows that Croatian political scientists predominantly view direct democracy negatively and are very wary of its possible more frequent use in Croatian politics.