un_roll_call_issues {unvotes}

Data on the issue of each roll call of the United Nations General Assembly

Description

Issue (topic) classifications of roll call votes of the United Nations General Assembly. Many votes had no topic, and some have more than one.

Usage

un_roll_call_issues

Format

A data frame (specifically a tbl_df) with one row for each pair of a roll call vote and an issue describing that vote. Contains the following columns:

rcid

The roll call id; used to join with un_votes and un_roll_calls

short_name

Two-letter issue codes

issue

Descriptive issue name

Source

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