Indirect Campaigning: Past, Present and Future of Voting Advice Applications

Diego Garzia, Alexander H. Trechsel (), Kristjan Vassil and Elias Dinas
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Diego Garzia: European University Institute
Alexander H. Trechsel: European University Institute
Kristjan Vassil: European University Institute
Elias Dinas: European University Institute

A chapter in The Internet and Democracy in Global Perspective, 2014, pp 25-41 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Voting Advice Applications (VAAs) have become an integral part of many electoral campaigns in modern democracies. VAAs allow users to compare, on the Internet, their political preferences with the positions of parties and candidates prior to an election. In recent elections in Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Germany, more than a quarter of the respective electorates used such an online- tool. This contribution explains the logic behind VAAs, retraces their historical development and diffusion, discusses the most recent findings on the impact such tools can have on political behavior of citizens, as well as on political parties themselves, and finally offers a look into the future of online voting advice applications.

Keywords: Political Party; Party System; Election Campaign; Vote Choice; Electoral Competition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-04352-4_3

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