Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Korthals, R.A.
Author-workplace-name: Macro, International & Labour Economics
Author-Name: Levels, M.
Author-workplace-name: Research Centre for Educ and Labour Mark, RS: SBE - MACIMIDE
Title: Multi-attribute compositional voting advice applications (MacVAAs) : a methodology for educating and assisting voters and eliciting their preferences
Abstract: This paper introduces a technique to elicit voter preferences, by integrating multi-attribute compositional analyses (Macs) with a voting advice application (VAA). The technique requires users to make trade-offs between different positions on a single issue, and between different issues. MacVAAs more closely resemble the electoral decision-making process in elections in which more than two parties participate than classic VAAs. MacVAA’s also overcomes the assumption of issue orthogonality and assumption of rationality that classic VAA erroneously make. Results of a field application of the technique during the 2012 Dutch parliamentary elections in 2012 are presented. Advantages and disadvantages are discussed.
Series: GSBE Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 20160101
Number: 011
File-URL: https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ws/files/1536032/guid-15d06183-d5bf-47f1-8242-564dd71dd483-ASSET1.0.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 718287
Handle: Repec:unm:umagsb:2016011
DOI: 10.26481/umagsb.2016011