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Country or leader?: political change and UN general assembly voting

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In this project we explore the relationship between leader change and relations between states. Voting in the United Naion's General Assembly (UNGA) is often used as a measure of political proximity between countries. We use UN voting coincidence to examine how changes in leadership affect rela...

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Main Authors: Dreher, Axel (Author) , Jensen, Nathan M. (Author)
Format: Book/Monograph Working Paper
Language:English
Published: Zürich KOF 2009
Series:KOF working papers / Konjunkturforschungsstelle, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich 217
In: KOF working papers (217)

DOI:10.3929/ethz-a-005778381
Subjects:
Vereinte Nationen > Generalversammlung
Arbeitspapier
Graue Literatur
Online Access:Resolving-System, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-005778381
Verlag, Volltext: http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/view/eth:41597
Verlag, Volltext: http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/eserv/eth:41597/eth-41597-01.pdf
Verlag, Volltext: http://kofportal.kof.ethz.ch/publications/download/1352/wp_217.pdf
Resolving-System, Volltext: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/50434
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Author Notes:Axel Dreher and Nathan Jensen
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Summary:In this project we explore the relationship between leader change and relations between states. Voting in the United Naion's General Assembly (UNGA) is often used as a measure of political proximity between countries. We use UN voting coincidence to examine how changes in leadership affect relations. Specifically, we examine how political change affects a country’s voting with the United States. In this paper we explore how leadership change affects UNGA voting. Using differences between “key” and “non-key” UN votes to the United States, we explore if political change is driven by preference change or by a changing external position. While political change has little impact on voting on non-key issues (state preferences) we find that after leadership change, countries are more likely to vote in line with the United States on key UN votes. -- United Nations General Assembly voting ; key votes
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DOI:10.3929/ethz-a-005778381

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