Duration: April 2011 until April 2012

Funding: Strategischer Forschungsfond, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf

In order to establish a third party funded research cluster at the Institute of Social Sciences of the Faculty of Philosophy at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, two research modules on "Voting Advice Applications" were conducted from April 2011 to April 2012.

The first module focused on VAA research in the national arena, which was to be consolidated and continued through the financial support of the Federal Agency for Civic Education. The second module focused on VAA research in the European context and was intended to deal with the different VAAs in European countries on the basis of a cooperative approach and also to serve the establishment of a researcher network. The two modules are composed of five temporally partly consecutive, partly parallel strands along which the research and communication activities extended.

Overview of project-related publications:

Garzia, Diego/Marschall, Stefan (2012): Voting Advice Applications Under Review: The State of Research, in: International Journal of Electronic Governance, 5:3/4, 203–22.

Marschall, Stefan (2011): Nutzer und Nutzen – Der Wahl-O-Mat zur Bundestagswahl 2009, in: Schweitzer, Eva J./Albrecht, Steffen (Hrsg.): Das Internet im Wahlkampf. Analysen zur Bundestagswahl 2009, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, S. 136-153.

Marschall, Stefan (2011): Wahlen, Wähler, Wahl-O-Mat, in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 61, S. 40-46.

Marschall, Stefan/Schmidt, Christian K. (2010): The Impact of Voting Indicators: The Case of the German Wahl-O-Mat, in: Cedroni, Lorella/Garzia, Diego (Hrsg.): Voting Advice Applications in Europe. The State of the Art, Napoli: Scriptaweb, S. 65-90.

Marschall, Stefan/Schultze, Martin (2012): Normalisierung oder Mobilisierung? Die Auswirkungen politischer Online-Kommunikation auf die Wahlbeteiligung am Beispiel einer Internet-Applikation zur Bundestagswahl 2009, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 53(3), S. 444-466.

Marschall, Stefan/Schultze, Martin (2012): Voting Advice Applications and Their Effect on Voter Turnout: The Case of the German Wahl-O-Mat, in: International Journal of Electronic Governance , 5:3/4, 349–66.

Schultze, Martin (2012): Wirkungen des Wahl-O-Mat auf Bürger und Parteien, in: Mitteilungen des Instituts für Deutsches und Internationales Parteienrecht und Parteienforschung 18, S. 127-131.