Questão Pública: First Voting Advice Application in Latin America

Marzuca, Alejandra; Serdült, Uwe; Welp, Yanina

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23333-3_19

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“…Over the last years, Voting Advice Applications have mushroomed in Europe and beyond (e.g. Marzuca et al, 2011). To acquire an overview on the dissemination of these tools, we conducted a survey drawing on the analysis of literature and a web-based data collection.…”

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Voting Advice Applications under review: the state of research

Garzia

Marschall

2012

IJEG

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In recent years, Voting Advice Applications (VAAs) have become a relevant object of political science research. The aim of this paper is to develop a map of the existing literature and to outline a research agenda for this increasingly relevant tool and its role within modern democracies. Starting point of the paper is the dissemination of VAAs in Europe, focusing on the differences and similarities between the main types of VAAs. After having outlined the reasons for the dramatic spread of VAAs among European countries and voters, we provide an overview on the existing VAA literature. We then present a comparative research agenda for the VAAs by identifying questions that could be posed to the tools and their role out of different analytical perspectives. In the conclusion, we bring forward the argument that VAAs might matter even more in the future, indicating the need for a coordinated research effort.

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Section: Differences and Similarities Within The Group Of Vaasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Voting Advice Applications under review: the state of research

Garzia

Marschall

2012

IJEG

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“…While there is no commonly agreed method on how to select and formulate the questions used by VAAs to match their users to political actors, the selection usually begins with a set of statements that reflect the assumptions of those who are involved in the design of the VAA about the issues that are deemed politically salient in the particular election, that is often supplemented by more generic statements used in electoral research surveys (e.g., Andreadis, 2013;Wall et al, 2009). A few VAA designers often invite journalists (see Krouwel et al, 2012), representatives of political parties (as in the cases of Stemwijzer and Wahl-O-Mat), and/or other stakeholders (see Marzuca et al, 2011) in the process. Yet others have suggested the possibility of more systematic selection methods based on topics derived from automated text analyses of newspaper corpora (Krouwel et al, 2012), issues that were featured in bills debated by the legislature ( Skop, 2010), or issues extracted through a qualitative analysis of party manifestos (Krouwel et al, 2012).…”

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Artificial intelligence and voting advice applications

Gemenis

2024

Front. Polit. Sci.

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The voter information tools collectively known as “Voting Advice Applications” (VAAs) have emerged as particularly popular tools in the realm of E-participation. Today, VAAs are integral parts of election campaigns in many countries around the world as they routinely engage millions of citizens, in addition to political actors and the media. This contribution assesses the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the design and dissemination of VAAs, considering normative, ethical, and methodological challenges. The study provides a comprehensive overview of AI applications in VAA development, from formulating questions to disseminating information, and concludes by highlighting areas where AI can serve as a valuable tool for enhancing the positive impact of VAAs on democratic processes.

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“…In Denmark, approximately 60% of the electorate used a VAA before voting during the 2019 parliamentary election (Hansen and Stubager, 2019). VAAs have a lower reach outside Northwestern Europe, but are also employed in East Asia (Liao et al, 2016), Latin America (Marzuca et al, 2011), Oceania (Lees-Marshment et al, 2015), Canada (CBC, 2021), and the USA (Washington Post, 2020;iSideWith.com, 2021). Understanding whether and how VAAs influence voting behavior is critical to understanding contemporary elections.…”

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Candidates, voters, and voting advice applications

Tromborg

Albertsen

2023

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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Voters often face a complex information environment with many options when they vote in elections. Research on democratic representation has traditionally been skeptical about voters’ ability to navigate this complexity. However, voting advice applications (VAAs) offer voters a shortcut to compare their own preferences across numerous issues with those of a large number of political candidates. As VAAs become more prevalent, it is critical to understand whether and how voters use them when they vote. We analyze how VAA users process and use VAA information about their district candidates with original survey data from the 2019 Danish parliamentary election in collaboration with the administrators of one of the most widely used Danish VAAs. The results demonstrate that VAAs have substantively large effects on their users’ choices between parties and between candidates within parties.

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Questão Pública: First Voting Advice Application in Latin America

Cited by 9 publications

References 6 publications

Voting Advice Applications under review: the state of research

Voting Advice Applications under review: the state of research

Artificial intelligence and voting advice applications

Candidates, voters, and voting advice applications

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