Analysing Effects of Voting Advice Applications on Users II

Abstract

Literature about VAAs has already shown that the usage of these tools can affect users in many different ways. First, VAAs can affect the attitudinal dimension of electoral politics, for example motivating voters to learn more about politics and party positions. Some scholars have pointed out that after doing such tests users exhibit increased levels of political knowledge, efficacy, or interest. Furthermore, VAAs can also affect the behavioural dimension of electoral politics, motivating users to turn out in higher numbers or affecting the candidate or party choice of their vote intentions. However, many questions around the VAA effects remain, such as what explains the differences in the size of these effects across contexts, the impact of self-selection of users on the impact, and what variables moderate the effects. The aim of this panel is to bring together a set of papers that advance our insights into such attitudinal and behavioural effects of VAAs.

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Voting Advice Applications Effects on Voting Behaviour: Experimental evidence from Luxembourg	View Paper Details
Shaping Tomorrow's Voters: Amplifying Party Position Knowledge of Young Citizens via Voting Advice Applications	View Paper Details
Reducing Affective Polarization with Voting Advice Applications: A Pan-European Experiment	View Paper Details
Do voters use voting advice from online tools to update their political preferences? The case of Denmark	View Paper Details
Low education, high effects? The impact of Voting Advice Applications on an underexposed segment of users	View Paper Details