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| Title: | | Country or leader? Political change and UN general assembly voting  |
| Authors: | | Dreher, Axel Jensen, Nathan |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | KOF working papers // Konjunkturforschungsstelle, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich 217 |
| 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. |
| Subjects: | | United Nations General Assembly voting key votes |
| JEL: | | F51 F53 D78 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | doi:10.3929/ethz-a-005778381 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | KOF Working Papers, KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle, ETH Zürich
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