Voting Advice Applications and Multi-Level Representation: Dimensionality, Issue Congruence and the Representative Deficit

Abstract

This panel invites paper submissions that draw on VAA data (such as respondent data and/or party/candidate data) to tackle themes that are of wider relevance to the discipline of political science. In particular, we are interested in bringing together papers that deal with questions of representation, policy congruence and the dimensionality of the political space. What do VAA data reveal about the quality of representation in a giv- en polity? To what extent is there policy issue congruence among citizens and elites? How is the political space structured, and to what extent is the latter equivalent for citizens and elites? VAA generated data is ideally suited for tackling these questions of broader interest to the political science community. To this end, high quality papers that adopt a comparative and/or longitudinal perspective as well as papers that focus on problems of multi-level representation (i.e., the EU) are especially welcome.

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