@article{Wall2009,
	title = {Picking your party online–{An} investigation of {Ireland}'s first online voting advice application},
	volume = {14},
	abstract = {Online voting advice  applications (VAAs), which help voters to decide in elections, have become  commonplace in many European countries. However, their use and reliability is  under-researched. This paper analyses the data generated by a VAA deployed in  the run-up to the May 2007 general election in Ireland. The website was designed  to allow users to compare their own placement on a number of policy dimensions  with those of the main parties competing in the election. We compare the users  of the website to the population in terms of their overall demographic  characteristics and policy preferences, and examine the extent to which the  advice issued by the website corresponded to users’ stated voting intentions. The  findings indicate that the VAA attracted users that were not representative of  the wider population. Furthermore, we find that the supporters of the two main  centre-right parties in Ireland  (Fianna F´ail and Fine Gael) were less likely to be correctly identified by the  application than supporters of the other parties. While VAAs offer the  potential to improve the quality of democratic participation, the findings  reported here also highlight a number of important challenges.},
	number = {3},
	journal = {Information Polity},
	author = {Wall, M and Sudulich, M L and Costello, R and Leon, E},
	year = {2009},
	note = {Publisher: IOS Press},
	pages = {203--218},
}

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