African Voting in the United Nations General Assembly

Bibliographic Data

ID4253003
AuthorsB David Meyers (corresponding author), Benjamin D Meyers
Year1966
Volume4
Issue2
Pages213-227
Publication date1966-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Modern African Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-278X • E-ISSN: 1469-7777
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022278x00013252
OpenAlexW1989498379
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited2

This article is an attempt to use some of the quantitative techniques of political science to provide a factual description of the voting behaviour of the African members in a selected session of the United Nations General Assembly. Drawing primarily upon methodology that has been used in studies of the United States Congress, 67 roll-call votes of the eighteenth session have been used to answer three questions which would seem primary to this description: (i) On what types of issues are the African states united and on what are they divided? (2) On divisive issues, into what groups are they divided? (3) How do the groupings vote, combine, and divide on these divisive issues

Disapproval voting · General assembly · Instant-runoff voting · Library science · Plenary session · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Session (web analytics) · Sociology · Voting · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Public Administration

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