About the Authors
- Bregje Holleman
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Contributed equally to this work with: Bregje Holleman, Naomi Kamoen
* E-mail: b.holleman@uu.nl
Affiliation Uil-OTS, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Naomi Kamoen
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Contributed equally to this work with: Bregje Holleman, Naomi Kamoen
Affiliations Uil-OTS, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, TiCC, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
- André Krouwel
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Affiliations Social-Cultural Sciences, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Kieskompas bv., Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Jasper van de Pol
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation ASCoR, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Claes de Vreese
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation ASCoR, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Competing Interests
One of the authors (AK) is the director of Kieskompas bv, a commercial Voting Advice Application builder, with which we cooperated in collecting the data for our research. This commercial affiliation does not alter our adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: BH CDV NK. Data curation: NK BH. Formal analysis: NK BH. Funding acquisition: BH CDV. Investigation: BH NK CDV JVDP AK. Methodology: BH CDV NK JVDP. Project administration: BH. Resources: AK BH NK. Software: NK JVDP AK. Supervision: BH CDV. Validation: AK NK. Visualization: BH AK. Writing – original draft: BH NK. Writing – review & editing: BH NK JVDP CDV AK.