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Study on German Wahl-O-Mat: Voting Advice Applications as Political Knowledge Platform

  • Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies
  • Abbr : JAPS
  • 2017, 24(3), pp.5-37
  • DOI : 10.18107/japs.2017.24.3.001
  • Publisher : Institute of Global Affairs
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general
  • Received : August 17, 2017
  • Accepted : September 13, 2017
  • Published : September 30, 2017

Chang, Hyeyoung 1 Kim, Joo Hee 2

1중앙대학교
2경희대학교 국제개발협력연구센터

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ABSTRACT

This study aims to examine the importance of voters’ political knowledge as a fundamental ground of the democratic development and suggests the additional functions of Voting Advice Applications(VAAs) as platform of providing political knowledge. As a policy consumer, voters are considered as “informed citizens” and their political knowledge with positive relations with education level and exposure of the media. Previous studies on policy-oriented election treated the voters’ political knowledge as a constant and with the certain level of political knowledged voters have been expected to cast their vote through the evaluation of policy and manifesto. This research focuses beyond European VAAs original matching function and shed lights on Korean VAAs limits and possibilities for knowledge platform. However, policy-oriented elections require the positive feedback effect between electoral candidates and voters. In order to achieve effective policy-oriented electoral result, well informed citizens are a necessary condition and voting advice applications can be a new tool to provide sufficient political information for enhancing political knowledge.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.