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Description & Citation
Description & Citation--Study No. 5513 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 5513 |
|---|---|
| Title: | United Nations and Colonialism, 1946-1967 |
| Principal Investigator(s): | Harold K. Jacobson |
| Bibliographic Citation: | Jacobson, Harold K. UNITED NATIONS AND COLONIALISM, 1946-1967 [Computer file]. ICPSR05513-v1. Compiled by University of Michigan, Dept. of Political Science. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1999. |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | This study contains data on 1,166 United Nations roll call votes on the issue of colonialism by 124 member nations in the period 1946-1967. Information is provided for the name of the session of the United Nations in which the vote occurred (e.g., the United Nations General Assembly Plenary session, joint committee session, political committee session, committee on granting independence to colonial countries, the Security Council, Trusteeship Council, the ad hoc committee on the Palestinian Question), session number, nature of the vote (e.g., procedural or substantive), object of the vote, constitutional and structural implications of the issue, category of the issue, and records of particular countries' votes. The roll call vote is the case, and the vote of each member and other descriptive information are the variables. |
| Subject Term(s): | colonialism, policies and procedures, roll call data, United Nations, voting |
| Geographic Coverage: | Global |
| Time Period: | 1946 - 1967 |
| Universe: | Roll call votes of 124 member nations of the United Nations in the period 1946-1967. |
| Data Type: | aggregate data, and administrative records data |
| Data Collection Notes: | The data map is provided as an ASCII text file, and the codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site. |
Methodology | |
| Data Source: | official records of the United Nations General Assembly |
Access and Availability | |
| Note: | A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest. |
| Original ICPSR Release: | 1984-05-03 |
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