US vote agreement with six G7 states rose by 5.1 percentage points from 2020 to 2021 on 36 fixed UN resolution titles
We compared US votes with votes from the other six G7 states in the UN General Assembly. We used one fixed set of 36 resolution titles from 2016, 2017, 2020 and 2021. Same votes score 1. Abstain versus yes or no scores 0.5. Yes versus no scores 0. Mean agreement rose from 63.43 to 68.52 percent from 2020 to 2021. Two US vote changes gave 4.17 of the 5.09 percentage point rise. Partner changes gave 0.93 points. The rise stayed positive with strict title matching, exact agreement and deletion checks. On a larger set of 39 titles, all valid completions of three missing codes gave a rise of 6.62 to 7.91 points. The 2016 to 2017 change was small and changed sign under strict title matching. Same titles can have different text. This is an arithmetic account of selected recorded votes, not a causal estimate of a president's effect. The package contains the source data, provenance, code, figures and result tables.
UN General Assembly · voting agreement · G7 · agenda · missing votes · fixed title comparison
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