What’s the Point of Voting Advice Applications? Competing Perspectives on Democracy and Citizenship

Electoral Studies 36:244-251 (2014)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Voting advice applications (VAAs) are interactive online tools designed to assist voters by improving the basis on which they decide how to vote. Current VAAs typically aim to do so by matching users’ policy-preferences with the positions of parties or candidates. But this ‘matching model’ depends crucially on implicit, contestable presuppositions about the proper functioning of the electoral process and about the forms of competence required for good citizenship—presuppositions associated with the social choice conception of democracy. This paper aims to make those presuppositions explicit and to contrast them with two possible alternative perspectives on VAAs, associated with deliberative and agonistic conceptions of democracy and citizenship.

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 101,174

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Against a Minimum Voting Age.Philip Cook - 2013 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 16 (3):439-458.
Merely voting or voting Well? Democracy and the requirements of citizenship.Julia Maskivker - forthcoming - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy.
The Limits of Deliberative Democracy as the Basis for Political Choice.Gerald Gaus - 2008 - Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory 55:26-53.
The (severe) limits of deliberative democracy as the basis for political choice.Gerald Gaus - 2008 - Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory 55 (117):26-53.
Voter Motivation.Adam Lovett - 2022 - Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 21 (3).

Analytics

Added to PP
2014-04-07

Downloads
57 (#378,204)

6 months
8 (#594,873)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author Profiles

Joel Anderson
Utrecht University
Thomas Fossen
Leiden University

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references