Pub Date : 2023-01-01Epub Date: 2022-10-26DOI: 10.1057/s41269-022-00264-5
Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen, Hannah Rajski, Sophie Ruprecht
In an increasingly digitized world, vote advice applications (VAAs) seem to be effective in providing voters with personalized information about their own positions vis-à-vis parties' positions and specific policies. Even though electoral research has increasingly paid attention to the role VAAs play in voter's opinion formation, very few studies have examined VAAs in the context of direct-democratic decisions. This article fills this gap by providing new insights into how VAAs affect individual decision-making in popular votes theoretically and empirically. We use novel data from the referendum campaign on the 2017 new energy law in Switzerland: a VAA experiment carried out in the framework of a three-wave panel survey. In the third wave, which took place a week before the referendum, respondents were randomly assigned to a treatment group and a control group; only the former was shown the VAA and made to use it. The results indicate two main takeaways. First, that using a VAA has a tangible effect inasmuch as the share of undecided voters is smaller among the treatment than among the control group. Second, VAA usage can have both a persuasive effect (i.e., it can change vote intentions) and an intensifying effect (i.e., it can strengthen voters' preexisting intentions).
Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1057/s41269-022-00264-5.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-26DOI: 10.1057/s41269-022-00280-5
Jasmien Luypaert, Thomas Legein
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Pub Date : 2022-12-21DOI: 10.1057/s41269-022-00281-4
Gilles Pittoors, Niels Gheyle
{"title":"Living up to expectations? EU politicization and party Europeanization in Flanders and the Netherlands","authors":"Gilles Pittoors, Niels Gheyle","doi":"10.1057/s41269-022-00281-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-022-00281-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46895539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-20DOI: 10.1057/s41269-022-00277-0
P. Verheyen, P. Thijssen
{"title":"Solidarity frames: the missing link between parties and voters?","authors":"P. Verheyen, P. Thijssen","doi":"10.1057/s41269-022-00277-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-022-00277-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":"58 1","pages":"918 - 938"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43233012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-10DOI: 10.1057/s41269-022-00278-z
G. R. Olsen
{"title":"When ‘’'limited statehood' becomes an asset. Fighting terrorism, migration and the consequences of 'Western' economic and military support to the Sahel","authors":"G. R. Olsen","doi":"10.1057/s41269-022-00278-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-022-00278-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49511641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-08DOI: 10.1057/s41269-022-00274-3
T. V. D. van der Meer, A. Damstra
{"title":"Associative issue ownership in a highly fragmented multiparty context: The Netherlands (2021)","authors":"T. V. D. van der Meer, A. Damstra","doi":"10.1057/s41269-022-00274-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-022-00274-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":"1 1","pages":"1 - 21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41741880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-02DOI: 10.1057/s41269-022-00273-4
Sergiu Gherghina, P. Tap, S. Soare
{"title":"Participatory budgeting and the perception of collective empowerment: institutional design and limited political interference","authors":"Sergiu Gherghina, P. Tap, S. Soare","doi":"10.1057/s41269-022-00273-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-022-00273-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":"58 1","pages":"573 - 590"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48597726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-24DOI: 10.1057/s41269-022-00270-7
S. Vermeer, Annelien Van Remoortere, R. Vliegenthart
{"title":"Still going strong? The role of traditional media in the 2021 Dutch parliamentary elections","authors":"S. Vermeer, Annelien Van Remoortere, R. Vliegenthart","doi":"10.1057/s41269-022-00270-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-022-00270-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":"1 1","pages":"1 - 17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49591665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-19DOI: 10.1057/s41269-022-00271-6
A. Mondon
{"title":"Epistemologies of ignorance in far right studies: the invisibilisation of racism and whiteness in times of populist hype","authors":"A. Mondon","doi":"10.1057/s41269-022-00271-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-022-00271-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":"58 1","pages":"876 - 894"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42100821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-07DOI: 10.1057/s41269-022-00262-7
Alessandro Nai, Elizabeth Young, Linda Bos
{"title":"Pop populism: ethno-traditionalism beyond national borders and the populist radical right","authors":"Alessandro Nai, Elizabeth Young, Linda Bos","doi":"10.1057/s41269-022-00262-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-022-00262-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":"1 1","pages":"1 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47132790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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