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A simple example of voting patterns for the United States and Mexico in the United Nations in 1946.

Usage

usamex46

Format

A data frame with 38 observations on the following 6 variables.

resid

an identifier for a roll-call vote ID

ccode1

the Correlates of War state code for the United States (2)

ccode2

the Correlates of War state code for Mexico (70)

year

a numeric constant for the year (1946)

vote1

an integer for how the United States voted on the resolution identified in the resid column

vote2

an integer for how Mexico voted on the resolution identified in the resid column

Details

Data are from a June 2024 of the United Nations voting data provided by Erik Voeten on his Dataverse for the project.

Valid vote values identified are 1 (yes), 2 (abstain), and 3 (no).

References

Bailey, Michael A., Anton Strezhnev, and Erik Voeten. 2017. "Estimating Dynamic State Preferences from United Nations Voting Data." Journal of Conflict Resolution 61(2): 430-56.