The U.S. is still lonely at the United Nations
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2013/09/25/the-u-s-is-still-lonely-at-the-united-nations
The graph above plots the ideal points of the United States and the average ideal points of states in various regions of the world (as defined by the United Nations) based on their votes in the U.N. General Assembly. This is essentially the same thing as estimating how liberal or conservative senators are based on their votes in the Senate. The neat trick Michael Bailey, Anton Strezhnev and I used is that we incorporated information about change and stability in the content of the United Nations’ agenda to identify when countries actually change their positions on issues (for a bit more, see here and here).
#visualisation #nations_unies via @francoisbriatte