The United Nations General Assembly has voted on over 4500
resolutions or other matters since its founding through 2008.
This Demonstration, based on data made available by the
Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University,
creates pie charts showing the distribution of votes on almost
all of those resolutions. You select a subset of the resolutions
you wish to study, such as all resolutions containing the word
"Israel" or the word "Africa". You then move a slider to select
a particular resolution from this subset. The Demonstration
responds by insetting a pie chart on a timeline showing the
distribution of votes. If you hover your mouse over the short
name of the resolution, a tooltip appears showing the date of
the vote and providing a longer description of the issue. The
dataset underlying this Demonstration may be cited as E. Voeten
and A. Merdzanovic, "United Nations General Assembly Voting
Data", hdl:1902.1/12379 UNF:3:Hpf6qOkDdzzvXF9m66yLTg==, and is
available at this site. It was imp