The voter's guide to the galaxy—a multiple-criteria fuzzy decision-support tool for voters and a fresh take on election survey methods
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://annals-csis.org/Volume_29/drp/pdf/7.pdf" target="_blank" >https://annals-csis.org/Volume_29/drp/pdf/7.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15439/2021B7" target="_blank" >10.15439/2021B7</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The voter's guide to the galaxy—a multiple-criteria fuzzy decision-support tool for voters and a fresh take on election survey methods
Original language description
This paper suggests a multiple-criteria decision-support tool for voters, that compares the attitudes of the voters with the declared attitudes of the political parties in several sets of relevant issues. The model intends to identify parties that seem to provide the best fit with the voter attitude-wise. The data input methodology uses discrete 5-point Likert-type scales. We investigate the effect of the inclusion of weights of different sets of issues, of the numerical anchors of the values of the Likert-type scales and also of the potential presence of extremity/leniency effect on the suggestion of the ``most compatible'' political party suggestion. We also propose a simple fuzzy-rule based evaluation tool to identify serious incompatibilities or desired compatibilities in the attitudes of the voter and the party to the relevant issues. This tool introduces (un)acceptability thresholds for the differences in attitudes between the parties and the respondents and provides lists of parties to vote for or to avoid voting for accompanied by the strengths of these suggestions. The tool is shown to have several desirable features including lower sensitivity to small differences in the attitudes, respondents' ability to express their preferences and also preventing the compensation of unacceptable differences in some categories of important issues by high compatibility in the other categories.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50204 - Business and management
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems
ISSN
2300-5963
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Volume of the periodical
29
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
7-17
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
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