Decision-Making in the United Nations General Assembly: A Comprehensive Database of Resolutions, Decisions, and Votes

Joshua Fjelstul (), Simon Hug () and Christopher Kilby
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Joshua Fjelstul: Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Geneva, https://www.joshuafjelstul.com/
Simon Hug: Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Geneva, http://www.unige.ch/ses/spo/static/simonhug/

No 56, Villanova School of Business Department of Economics and Statistics Working Paper Series from Villanova School of Business Department of Economics and Statistics

Abstract: Existing databases for UNGA voting (e.g., Bailey et al. 2017) provide excellent coverage of United Nations General Assembly voting on resolutions that were adopted by roll call vote. These databases, however, have some known limitations: They were built on historical dataset (e.g., the ICPSR dataset) that have varying coverage and definitions. They do not cover resolutions adopted by consensus. They do not consistently cover votes on draft resolutions that failed, i.e., votes on resolutions that were not adopted, or votes leading up to consideration by the UNGA. In this paper, we present an updated dataset that attempts to expand and improve the consistency of the UNGA decisions covered. We provide some comparisons of our database with other UNGA datasets, as well as explore the implications of more complete data for existing and future research.

Keywords: United Nations General Assembly; roll call voting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-08
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