The parliamentary election in the Netherlands, 22 November 2006

Aarts, Kees; Kolk, Hendrik van der

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2007.02.002

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“…According to Marschall (2005), in Germany, only 6% of voters using a VAA were directly affected in their electoral decision, and in Belgium, VAAs had an impact only on a small percentage of their users (Walgrave et al, 2008). Research results for the Netherlands show higher values (Aarts and van der Kolk, 2007), but at 15%, there is still a significant difference from the 67% we found for Switzerland. We will return to this aspect later.…”

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“…The resulting figures vary strongly depending on the country. In the Netherlands, between 10% (Kleinnijenhuis et al, 2008) and 15% of users (Aarts and van der Kolk, 2007) claimed to have adjusted their electoral decisions due to the recommendations received. For Germany, this figure is 6% (Marschall, 2005), and for Finland, it is as low as 3% (Mykkänen and Moring, 2006).…”

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Voting advice applications and party choice: evidence from smartvote users in Switzerland

Ladner

Fivaz

Pianzola

2012

IJEG

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Online voting advice applications (VAAs) have become popular across Europe with millions of voters using them during electoral campaigns. Despite their popularity, little is known about their impact on their users' electoral choices. Based on survey data from voters using the Swiss VAA smartvote, we present findings on the direct impact on the actual votes of VAA users and whether the voting recommendations led them to adapt their previous vote choices. Our findings suggest that there is a tendency toward swing voting among smartvote users, most prominently among younger voters. Moreover, we find that smartvote users who were very surprised by the outcome of their voting recommendations were also more inclined to change their party choices. Furthermore, we examine the directional change of the initial voting preferences of those voters who stated that the tool had influenced their voting decisions. Our findings are valid only for a self-selected sample of smartvote users; thus, we discuss necessary steps for improvement in future VAA research.

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Section: First Analyses: Direct Impact Measurementmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Voting advice applications and party choice: evidence from smartvote users in Switzerland

Ladner

Fivaz

Pianzola

2012

IJEG

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“…In other countries with party-based VAAs the self-reported effect is more moderate. In the Netherlands, between 10 per cent (Kleinnijenhuis et al, 2007) and 15 per cent (Aarts & Van der Kolk, 2007) of users indicate that they were affected whereas in Germany and Finland these percentages are about 6 per cent (Marschall, 2005) and 3 per cent (Mykkänen & Moring, 2006), respectively. Taken together it shows that VAAs have a substantial impact on vote choice, but, as was also the case for political knowledge, the exact size of the effect varies substantially between studies.…”

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The Effect of Voting Advice Applications on Political Knowledge and Vote Choice

Kamoen

Holleman

Krouwel³

et al. 2015

Irish Political Studies

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In many countries with multiparty systems, a decline in class voting has increased volatility and the need for comprehensive information about the political landscape among voters. Voting Advice Applications (VAAs) are online tools that match users to political parties and, as such, they hold a promise of reinforcing informational transparency and democratic representation. The current research investigated whether VAAs live up to this expectation by investigating to what extent VAAs affected users' political knowledge and vote choice in the Dutch national elections of 2012. Results show that VAA users feel that the VAA improved their political knowledge. In addition, those groups of VAA users who experienced a large knowledge increase, also relatively often indicated that their vote choice had been affected. This suggests that VAAs contribute to informational transparency by increasing knowledge among a potentially wide audience, and also that VAAs might increase democratic representation to the extent that VAAs persuade people to vote for the candidate that best represents their opinions. On the other hand, we found discrepancies between behavioural and perceptual measurements of the effect of VAAs on vote choice. This raises doubts about whether VAAs shape actual voting behaviours and knowledge, or rather perceptions of that.

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“…In terms of methodology, previous studies investigating the effects of VAAs on vote choice have employed post-election surveys of users (sometimes as part of larger surveys which also include non-users), where respondents provided their own subjective evaluations of whether their vote choice was influenced by their visit to a VAA site (Aarts and van der Kolk, 2007;Carlson and Strandberg, 2005;Ladner et al, 2010;Marschall and Schmidt, 2010;Walgrave et al, 2008). These surveys have varied dramatically in their estimates of the importance attributed by users to VAA sites.…”

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Do voters follow the recommendations of voter advice application websites? A study of the effects of kieskompas.nl on its users’ vote choices in the 2010 Dutch legislative elections

2012

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In this article we investigate the electoral effects of a prominent Dutch Voter Advice Application site (www.kieskompas.nl). Our research design combines factual data on the recommendations received by users from the site's log files with users' responses to preadvice and post-election survey items. We find that the effects of online recommendations on vote choice depend on the congruence of the recommended party with the users' pre-existing preferences. When the site recommended a party that was being seriously contemplated by the user, the user was demonstrably more likely to go on to vote for the recommended party. We find that this effect was not visible among voters who

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The parliamentary election in the Netherlands, 22 November 2006

Cited by 13 publications

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Voting advice applications and party choice: evidence from smartvote users in Switzerland

Voting advice applications and party choice: evidence from smartvote users in Switzerland

The Effect of Voting Advice Applications on Political Knowledge and Vote Choice

Do voters follow the recommendations of voter advice application websites? A study of the effects of kieskompas.nl on its users’ vote choices in the 2010 Dutch legislative elections

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