un_roll_calls {unvotes}

Data on each roll call of the United Nations General Assembly

Description

Information on each roll call vote of the United Nations General Assembly.

Usage

un_roll_calls

Format

A data frame (specifically a tbl_df) with one row for each roll call vote, and the following columns:

rcid

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

session

Session number. The UN holds one session per year; these started in 1946

importantvote

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

Date of the vote, as a Date vector

unres

Resolution code

amend

Whether the vote was on an amendment; coded only until 1985

para

Whether the vote was only on a paragraph and not a resolution; coded only until 1985

short

Short description

descr

Longer description

Details

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)

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

Examples

library(dplyr)

# combine with per-country-vote information
un_votes %>%
  inner_join(un_roll_calls, by = "rcid")