Closing the information gap in competitive authoritarian regimes? The effect of voting advice applications
dc.contributor.author | Andı, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Çarkoğlu, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Banducci, S | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-15T12:01:56Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-09-14 | |
dc.date.updated | 2024-02-15T11:40:31Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Voting Advice Applications (VAAs) are used in elections across the globe and offer voters nonpartisan information about political parties, candidates, and policy issues. Several studies suggest that VAAs affect vote choice as well as political knowledge. However, despite the vast literature on VAAs, online voting advice technology's impact on authoritarian regimes, where the cost of accessing expert advice is much higher than in democracies, remains unknown. In this study, we present results from a randomized experiment that evaluates the effects of a VAA intervention on voter attitudes and choices in Turkey—a typical competitive authoritarian regime where elections take place, but the rules are skewed in favor of the regime. We embedded a VAA intervention in a face-to-face panel survey conducted before and after the 2019 local elections in Istanbul, Turkey. Using a representative sample of Turkish adults in Istanbul, we randomly assigned half of the participants to our VAA intervention consisting of exposure to their political standing on a two-dimensional map of political candidates. Our analysis demonstrates that the VAA intervention influences candidate choice, mainly among centrist voters. However, these effects are short-term and dissipate within two months. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 86, article 102678 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2023.102678 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 110968 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/135318 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-1874-5110 (Banducci, Susan) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_GB |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Under embargo until 14 March 2025 in compliance with publisher policy | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2023 Published by Elsevier Ltd. This version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_GB |
dc.subject | Voting advice applications | en_GB |
dc.subject | Competitive authoritarianism | en_GB |
dc.subject | Voting behavior | en_GB |
dc.subject | Experimental methods | en_GB |
dc.subject | Voting behaviour | en_GB |
dc.title | Closing the information gap in competitive authoritarian regimes? The effect of voting advice applications | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2024-02-15T12:01:56Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0261-3794 | |
exeter.article-number | 102678 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Data availability: Data will be made available on request. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1873-6890 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Electoral Studies | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2024-08-24 | |
rioxxterms.version | AM | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2023-09-14 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2024-02-15T11:58:37Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
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