Country or leader?

• Verfasst von: Dreher, Axel
• Verfasst von: Jensen, Nathan M.
• Titel: Country or leader?
• Titelzusatz: political change and UN general assembly voting
• Verf.angabe: Axel Dreher and Nathan Jensen
• Verlagsort: Zürich
• Verlag: KOF
• Jahr: 2009
• Illustrationen: graph. Darst.
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: KOF working papers / Konjunkturforschungsstelle, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich ; 217
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• DOI: doi:10.3929/ethz-a-005778381
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• (Umfang): Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 30 S., 287,56 KB)
• K10plus-PPN: 615006647

Abstract

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