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Background:

  • Traditional voter intention prediction relies on extensive datasets.
  • Digital footprints offer novel avenues for political behavior analysis.
  • Multiparty systems present unique challenges for voter intention prediction.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the efficacy of public Facebook likes in predicting voter intention within multiparty systems.
  • To demonstrate that selective digital traces can achieve high prediction accuracy.
  • To explore the generalization potential of this method across populations and borders.

Main Methods:

  • Connecting surveyed respondents to their public Facebook liking data.
  • Applying machine learning classifiers to analyze political liking behavior.
  • Comparing prediction accuracies against established methods using diverse datasets.

Main Results:

  • A few selective Facebook likes can predict voter intention with accuracy comparable to larger datasets.
  • Incorporating complete political like history improves prediction accuracy to over 60-70% in multiparty studies.
  • Individual political profiling via Facebook likes achieves higher accuracy than previous studies.

Conclusions:

  • Public Facebook like activity is a powerful tool for political profiling in multiparty systems.
  • Parsimonious digital measures offer high accuracy and broad generalizability.
  • This approach utilizes publicly available data and can be scaled to millions of users.