Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/213597 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
ifo Working Paper No. 320
Publisher: 
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, Munich
Abstract: 
We examine voting behavior of Western allied countries in line with the United States over the period 1949 until 2019. Descriptive statistics show that voting in line with the United States on resolutions in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) was on average 7.2 percentage points lower under Donald Trump than under the preceding United States presidents. The policy shift is especially pronounced for resolutions dealing with the Middle East. The decline in common UNGA voting behavior is significant for the resolution agreement rate and the absolute difference of ideal points. The results suggest that the alienation of Western allies is not driven by ideological distance based on a classical leftwing-rightwing government ideology scale.
Subjects: 
Donald Trump
voting alignment
UNGA
political alliances
JEL: 
F51
F53
D72
D78
C23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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