An Examination of Voting Patterns in the 23rd and 24th Sessions of the General Assembly

Abstract

The study ascertains scale values for United Nations members on a large number of heterogenous variables (national attribute data); correlates the obtained scale values with general assembly voting pattern data (23rd and 24th Sessions); draws conclusions and generalizations from the observed relationships; and discusses the relationship of the findings to previous research and to certain theories of international behavior. The three most important predictors of General Assembly voting were found to be 'economic development,' 'democracy' and 'U.S. relations.' Economically developed states were almost consistently 'against the majority,' when significant correlations emerged on the issues, while 'Democracy' and 'U.S. Relations' were 'with' the majority on some issues and 'opposed' on others. The techniques of analysis included Spearman's Rho factor analysis, and cononical correlation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0723825

Entities

People

  • Jack E. Vincent

Organizations

  • University of HawaiĘ»i System

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Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Factor Analysis
  • Governments
  • Human Rights
  • International Law
  • International Relations
  • Islands
  • Language
  • Military Personnel
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Political Science
  • Political Systems
  • Regression Analysis
  • Students
  • Training
  • United Kingdom
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

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  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Regression Analysis.