Voting Advice Applications in Lithuania: Promoting Programmatic Competition or Breeding Populism?

Ramonaite, Ain

doi:10.2202/1944-2866.1027

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“…This is, in many respects, an innovative approach that has a lot of potential; however, as this article argues, we need to consider many methodologically controversial aspects of the estimation process in the context of VAAs. Nevertheless, failure to do so can result in a proliferation of unreliable and invalid data on party positions with potential consequences, not only to the accuracy of our inferences about how democracy works but also to the democratic process itself (see Walgrave et al, 2009;Ramonait . e, 2010).…”

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Estimating parties’ policy positions through voting advice applications: Some methodological considerations

Gemenis

2012

Acta Polit

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The past few years have seen the advent and proliferation of Voting Advice (or Aid) Applications (VAAs), which offer voting advice on the basis of calculating the ideological congruence between citizens and political actors. Although VAA data have often been used to test many empirical questions regarding voting behaviour and political participation, we know little about the approaches used by VAAs to estimate the positions of political parties. This article presents the most common aspects of the VAA approach and examines some methodological issues regarding the phrasing of statements, the format of response scales, the reliability of coding statements into response scales and the reliability and validity of scaling items into dimensions. The article argues that VAAs have a lot of potential but there is also much space for methodological improvements, and therefore concludes with some recommendations for designing VAAs.

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Estimating parties’ policy positions through voting advice applications: Some methodological considerations

Gemenis

2012

Acta Polit

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“…There are numerous applications developed for this purpose. The three leading universities in Lithuania developed the application Manobalsas for the purposes of Lithuanian parliamentary elections in 2008 (Ramonaite, 2010). However, there is a security issue since it is very important to adequately confirm voter's personal data, but without a possibility to trace the vote, in order to preserve voting secrecy.…”

Section: E-voting As An E-government Servicementioning

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“…Statistics has found that respondents were more aware of political differences after they solved the quiz, but also the quiz helped them to get more information than they had, and some of the respondents changed their minds as to for whom to vote (Vote Match Europe, 2014), (Vote Match UK, 2014). Research has shown that the use of VAAs can be useful in non-ideological populist parties that can adapt the preferences of an average voter (Ramonaite, 2010).…”

Section: E-voting As An E-government Servicementioning

confidence: 99%

Scaffolding e-voting in developing countries

Maletić¹,

Barać²,

Rakočević³

et al. 2019

Manage: J. Sustainable Bus. Manage, Solutions Emerging Econ.

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Research question: This paper discusses e-voting as an integral part of e-government in developing countries. E-voting enables automation of casting and counting votes. Motivation: The main goal was to investigate the readiness of both the public sector and citizens for switching from common “paper” voting method to electronic system-based voting. In order to improve democracy and trust in the election process (IDEA, 2011), the e-voting system should be reliable, accurate and secure (Mauw, Verschuren, & de Vink, 2007). The example that should be followed is the Estonian e-voting system (Drechsler, 2004). Idea: We proposed a comprehensive e-voting model that includes five components: e-voting services, IT infrastructure, participants’ registration, components integration and a system for counting and reporting. Security is the most important issue that should be overcome by using the cryptographic protocols. Reliability and availability of the e-voting system should not be neglected, and it should be able to save all verified casted votes. Data: In order to examine the readiness and awareness of e-voting potentials in a developing country, we conducted a survey that included 152 persons from three different groups: individuals, legal entities and e-government employees. Tools: In order to establish relationships among opinions of the three groups of respondents to the survey that was conducted, a comparative analysis was performed. For this purpose the questions were divided into four categories. Findings: As it was expected, the study results have showed that survey participants find security, lack of qualified staff and mistrust of the older generations towards new technologies as the crucial issues in developing and implementing the e-voting model. Based on the responses the cost reduction, ease of use and efficiency improvement are recognized as categories that could be realized by implementation of the e-voting system. Contribution: The results show the respondents’ opinion regarding the e-voting system introduction as a legitimate voting tool. It can reduce abuse, voting costs and manual errors.

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“…The historic development of these party systems explains these differences. Similarly, the differences between the political spaces in new democracies in the South of Europe as well as in Central and Eastern European countries have been explained by referring to country-specific historical and demographic factors (Evans and Whitefield, 1993;Evans and Whitefield, 1998;Kitschelt et al, 1999;Rohrschneider and Whitefield, 2009;Ramonaite, 2010). One should be cautious when integrating party positions from different European countries into one single model, because of these national differences.…”

Section: A Pan-european Party Spacementioning

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Design challenges in cross-national VAAs: the case of the EU Profiler

Louwerse

Otjes

2012

IJEG

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This paper analyses the design of the EU Profiler, the first truly cross-national VAA. We assess the convergent validity and scaling reliability of the low-dimensional models that are used to represent differences between parties and users. Convergent validity of the party positions in the EU Profiler is moderate to high, but scaling reliability is low for most of the issue dimensions included. We examine whether these problems are related to the EU Profiler's cross-national nature. The EU Profiler integrates the positions of parties from all over Europe into one pan-European model, even though students of European politics emphasise that there are structural differences between party competition in Central and Eastern Europe and Western Europe. We find that the EU Profiler performs better in terms of scaling reliability in Western European party systems than in Central and Eastern European party systems. In addition, there are substantive differences between individual countries.

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Voting Advice Applications in Lithuania: Promoting Programmatic Competition or Breeding Populism?

Cited by 43 publications

References 23 publications

Estimating parties’ policy positions through voting advice applications: Some methodological considerations

Estimating parties’ policy positions through voting advice applications: Some methodological considerations

Scaffolding e-voting in developing countries

Design challenges in cross-national VAAs: the case of the EU Profiler

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