Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/50434 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
KOF Working Papers No. 217
Publisher: 
ETH Zurich, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Zurich
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
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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