New directions in VAA development and research: Methodological innovations, data collection, and data sharing

Abstract

Since their emergence in the late 1980s, Voting Advice Applications (VAAs) have become a more prominent feature of electoral campaigns, especially in Europe where millions of citizens use them. While the number of VAA designers is increasing, many of the VAAs that are implemented today are nearly identical in terms of layout and methods to VAAs fielded more than a decade ago. Moreover, although the literature on VAAs has increased exponentially, VAA data is still handled and shared haphazardly. This panel features both papers that address innovations in the design of VAAs (for example: VAAs that are augmented with a Conversational Agent) and issues about collecting and sharing VAA data.

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