Do voting advice applications have an effect on electoral participation and voter turnout? Evidence from the 2007 Swiss federal elections

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6229 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 211-224

  Ladner, Andreas ^a   Pianzola, Joëlle ^a  

^a IDHEAP Lausanne   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

E democracy; Electoral participation; Voter turnout; Voting Advice Applications (VAAs)

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING PROCESS; E-DEMOCRACY; ELECTORAL PARTICIPATION; INFORMATION GAP; VOTER TURNOUT; VOTING ADVICE APPLICATIONS (VAAS); COST BENEFITS;

DECISION MAKING; COST EFFECTIVENESS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 78049348842     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15158-3_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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