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Information on each roll call vote of the United Nations General Assembly.
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A data frame (specifically a tbl_df) with one row for each roll call vote, and the following columns:
The roll call id; used to join with un_votes
and un_roll_call_issues
Session number. The UN holds one session per year; these started in 1946
Whether the vote was classified as important by the U.S. State Department report "Voting Practices in the United Nations". These classifications began with session 39
Date of the vote, as a Date vector
Resolution code
Whether the vote was on an amendment; coded only until 1985
Whether the vote was only on a paragraph and not a resolution; coded only until 1985
Short description
Longer description
The yes, no, and abstain columns that were present in the original
Voeten data were removed (since they can be retrieved from the
un_votes
dataset)
Erik Voeten "Data and Analyses of Voting in the UN General Assembly" Routledge Handbook of International Organization, edited by Bob Reinalda (published May 27, 2013) https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=hdl:1902.1/12379
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# combine with per-country-vote information
un_votes %>%
inner_join(un_roll_calls, by = "rcid")
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