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Challenges in comparing cross-country responses in voting advice applications.
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Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties . Feb2024, Vol. 34 Issue 1, p41-58. 18p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- The last years saw the release of several cross-country data sets generated by Voting Advice Applications (VAAs) - websites that "match" a respondent's position on various political attitudes with those of political parties or candidates. As they hold the information of a high number of respondents on a large number of political attitudes, these datasets are promising sources of data for political and social scientists. Yet, as with all cross-country data, we should first establish if they meet the requirements of good data quality and construct equivalence. Using data from the 2019 euandi VAA, I employ Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) to study the behavior of 6 items that form an economic left-right scale. Doing so for 28 countries, I find that not only the quality of the data differs between countries, but the underlying structure as well. This means that for some countries the data is of too low a quality and thus not useful for cross-country analysis. While this does not invalidate VAA data in general, it does limit it. In addition, this paper illustrates the use of MCA as a pre-processing technique for establishing the quality of both VAA data and cross-country data in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17457289
- Volume :
- 34
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 174601252
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2021.2001473