Analysis of UN Voting Patterns via Diffusion Geometry and Thematic Clustering

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minh-Tam Le ◽  
Mathew Lawlor ◽  
Bruce M. Russett ◽  
John Sweeney ◽  
Steven W. Zucker
Keyword(s):  
Diffusion Geometry ◽  
Un Voting

Forty Years of United Nations General Assembly Voting

1990 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Holloway
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Multidimensional Scaling ◽  
World Politics ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
United Nations General Assembly ◽  
Un Voting

AbstractStudies of bloc voting in the United Nations have appeared periodically since the early 1960s. This article examines the evolution of UN voting in its first four decades using multidimensional scaling, which is compared to factor analysis and found to be superior for representation and interpretation. UN voting is important for showing how world politics is reflected in that body, hence the frequent use of UN votes as a dependent variable in the analysis of foreign policy behaviour.

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