Voting Aid Applications and the Effect of Statement Selection. Walgrave, S., Nuytemans, M., & Pepermans, K. West European Politics, 32(6):1161–1180, November, 2009. Publisher: Routledge
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Voting Aid Applications (VAA) helping voters make their decision at the ballots have become more popular throughout Western Europe. They typically consist of a number of statements that are used to match voters with parties. Drawing on a large-scale simulation of 500,000 different configurations of 36 statements and on a random sample of Belgian voters, the paper shows that many of these combinations produce diverging information for the participants. The study establishes that the specific selection of statements has a considerable impact on the ‘voting advice’ that is produced: some configurations favour certain parties, other configurations benefit other parties.
@article{Walgrave2009,
	title = {Voting {Aid} {Applications} and the {Effect} of {Statement} {Selection}},
	volume = {32},
	issn = {0140-2382},
	url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01402380903230637},
	doi = {10.1080/01402380903230637},
	abstract = {Voting Aid Applications (VAA) helping  voters make their decision at the ballots have become more popular throughout Western Europe. They typically consist of a number of  statements that are used to match voters with parties. Drawing on a large-scale  simulation of 500,000 different configurations of 36 statements and on a random  sample of Belgian voters, the paper shows that many of these combinations  produce diverging information for the participants. The study establishes that  the specific selection of statements has a considerable impact on the ‘voting  advice’ that is produced: some configurations favour certain parties, other  configurations benefit other parties.},
	number = {6},
	urldate = {2019-01-17},
	journal = {West European Politics},
	author = {Walgrave, Stefaan and Nuytemans, Michiel and Pepermans, Koen},
	month = nov,
	year = {2009},
	note = {Publisher: Routledge},
	pages = {1161--1180},
}

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