4 papers
IXPLORE: Bounded Ideal Point Estimation with Grid-Based Uncertainty Quantification
Fynn Bachmann
Ideal point estimation is widely used to analyze and visualize political data. However, selecting the corresponding spatial model involves various trade-offs: while model-based app…
Adaptive political surveys and GPT-4: Tackling the cold start problem with simulated user interactions
Fynn Bachmann, Daan van der Weijden, Lucien Heitz +2
Adaptive questionnaires dynamically select the next question for a survey participant based on their previous answers. Due to digitalisation, they have become a viable alternative…
Bridging Voting and Deliberation with Algorithms: Field Insights from vTaiwan and Kultur Komitee
Joshua C. Yang, Fynn Bachmann
Democratic processes increasingly aim to integrate large-scale voting with face-to-face deliberation, addressing the challenge of reconciling individual preferences with collective…
Fast and Adaptive Questionnaires for Voting Advice Applications
Fynn Bachmann, Cristina Sarasua, Abraham Bernstein
The effectiveness of Voting Advice Applications (VAA) is often compromised by the length of their questionnaires. To address user fatigue and incomplete responses, some application…