Estimating Dynamic State Preferences from United Nations Voting Data

United Nations (UN) General Assembly votes have become the standard data source for measures of states preferences over foreign policy. Most papers use dyadic indicators of voting similarity between states. We propose a dynamic ordinal spatial model to estimate state ideal points from 1946 to 2012 o...

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Published in:The Journal of conflict resolution 2017-02, Vol.61 (2), p.430-456
Main Authors: Bailey, Michael A., Strezhnev, Anton, Voeten, Erik
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Democratic peace theory
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Peace
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International cooperation
International law
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Peace
United Nations
Voter behavior
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