Advantages and disadvantages of inclusive multilateral venues: The rise and fall of the United Nations General Assembly resolution on new or restored democracies

Hecht, Catherine

doi:10.1057/s41311-017-0058-4

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“…Sponsorship patterns have been used to gauge the cohesion between BRICS countries (Dijkhuizen and Onderco 2019) and regional powers and their neighbors (Mesquita and Seabra 2020). Hecht (2017) has focused on shifts in foreign policy 6 orientations connected to democratization, while Finke (2021) uses sponsorship data to compare the effect of regime type on trends of cooperation and conflict. Strides have also been made in applying network analysis to detect blocs and coalitions (Meyer and Hammerschmidt 2020).…”

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Estimating ideal points from UN General Assembly sponsorship data

Mesquita

Martins

Seabra³

2022

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The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) represents a microcosm of global politics that offers a valuable snapshot of interstate relations and state preferences. In this context, roll-call votes and measures of voting affinity often receive the bulk of scholarly attention. However, even though techniques such as ideal point estimation have grown more sophisticated over time when applied to voting data, they remain grounded by an original selection bias that discards 2/3 of the UNGA yield. This share of disregarded output can prove highly informative if drafting and sponsorship procedures receive a closer look instead. This research note applies ideal point estimation to UNGA sponsorship data for the first time for every member from 2009 to 2019. It advances a cutting-edge approach to better estimate state preferences over a contested policy space, while correcting for the narrow focus of previous UNGA analyses on voting data. The results detect an underlying issue space that bears external validity with the inclination of states towards multilateralism.

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“…See for instanceHecht's (2017) analysis of the rise and fall of the UNGA resolution on new and restored democracies.…”

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Estimating ideal points from UN General Assembly sponsorship data

Mesquita

Martins

Seabra³

2022

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“…Effecting concerns how a resolution is expected to produce an outcome over a policy domain, e.g. strengthening human rights (Chané and Sharma 2016) or democracy (Hecht 2017). However, states do not just envisage substantive effects; some may even support resolutions banning the death penalty, despite the domestic use of capital punishment (Pascoe and Bae 2021).…”

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Beyond Roll-Call Voting: Sponsorship Dynamics at the UN General Assembly

Seabra

Mesquita

2022

International Studies Quarterly

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Research on the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has often privileged analyses on voting patterns, that is, how countries position themselves whenever a resolution is brought to a vote in each plenary session. However, voted resolutions comprise only a fraction of UNGA output, and much is still unknown about how countries behave before casting any votes. What takes place prior to and leading up to the adoption of resolutions? Even though the study of draft sponsorship remains underdeveloped, it can comprise a more valid empirical strategy to infer state preferences. This research note introduces the UN General Assembly Sponsorship Dataset, which encompasses the sponsorship behavior of every UNGA member from 2009 to 2019. We develop two novel empirical indices, priority and ownership, in order to ascertain draft relevance for each member state. We also use the new data to test longstanding arguments over vote-buying and North versus South coalitions in the UNGA. Our findings confirm mainstream conclusions for the former but challenge prevailing assumptions on the latter.

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Forums Do Matter: Examining the Norm Dynamics of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)

Peltner

Brühl

2023

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Advantages and disadvantages of inclusive multilateral venues: The rise and fall of the United Nations General Assembly resolution on new or restored democracies

Cited by 6 publications

References 17 publications

Estimating ideal points from UN General Assembly sponsorship data

Estimating ideal points from UN General Assembly sponsorship data

Beyond Roll-Call Voting: Sponsorship Dynamics at the UN General Assembly

Forums Do Matter: Examining the Norm Dynamics of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)

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