United Nations General Assembly Voting Data

This is a dataset of roll-call votes in the UN General Assembly 1946-2022 (sessions 1-77). Note that most votes take place in the Fall but some votes also occur in the spring of the following year. Note that for the five most recent years, failed votes and votes on amendments and paragraphs have not yet been added. Moreover, \"important votes\" are also not yet coded for these years. There will be an update to the raw data, likely in the Fall. Note the codebook as there are some issues with dates and other features of the raw data, which are pieced together from numerous sources. The dataset includes issue codes and descriptions. It also contains ideal point estimates derived from these votes as described in Bailey, Michael A., Anton Strezhnev, and Erik Voeten. \"Estimating dynamic state preferences from United Nations voting data.\" Journal of Conflict Resolution 61.2 (2017): 430-456. Code to estimate ideal points and issue ideal points are available at: https://github.com/evoeten/United-Nations-General-Assembly-Votes-and-Ideal-Points. The ideal point estimates are based on sessions, not years. There are also dyadic agreement scores, See the Bailey, Strezhnevr, Voeten article for why these should not be used in most instances.本数据集涵盖1946年至2022年（第1至77届）联合国大会（United Nations General Assembly）的唱名投票数据。需注意，绝大多数投票于秋季进行，但亦有部分投票于次年春季举行。另需说明，近五年的失败投票、修正案及条款投票尚未被纳入数据集；此外，该时段内的“重要投票”亦未完成编码标注。原始数据预计将于秋季进行更新。请留意数据集编码手册（codebook）：由于原始数据由多来源整合而来，部分日期及其他字段存在瑕疵。本数据集包含议题编码及对应描述信息，同时包含基于上述投票数据得到的理想点估计值，相关估算方法详见Bailey、Michael A.、Anton Strezhnev与Erik Voeten发表于《冲突解决期刊》（Journal of Conflict Resolution）第61卷第2期（2017年）第430至456页的论文《从联合国投票数据估算动态国家偏好》。用于估算理想点及议题理想点的代码可从以下网址获取：https://github.com/evoeten/United-Nations-General-Assembly-Votes-and-Ideal-Points。上述理想点估计值以联合国大会届次为单位计算，而非自然年份。本数据集同时包含双边一致得分（dyadic agreement scores）；关于多数场景下不应使用此类得分的原因，详见前述Bailey、Strezhnevr与Voeten的研究论文。