Co-sponsorship, note verbale, and association behaviour at the UNGA: an analysis of the death penalty moratorium resolutions

Pascoe, Daniel; Bae, Sangmin

doi:10.1080/13642987.2021.1910810

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“…The 1967 decision to eschew the death penalty – which was mainly due to pragmatic concerns about escalation of violence – was retrospectively couched in humanitarian terms, and with time came to symbolise, for Israel's defenders, its insistence on human rights norms in the face of terrorism (Dudai, 2018). This has allowed Israel, for example, to be among the states voting in favour of UN resolutions calling for a moratorium on the death penalty since 2007 (Pascoe & Bae, 2022). Deviating from the policy would have major costs for this symbolic message.…”

Section: The Peculiar Case Of the Israeli Death Penaltymentioning

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Symbolic laws, de facto abolitions and path dependence: When death penalty policies remain stable

Dudai

2023

Howard J Crime Justice

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There is a growing tendency to perceive the death penalty as always ‘on the move’, often in a teleological trajectory inevitably leading to universal abolition. This article aims to question this tendency, noting that in many cases death penalty policies remain stable, especially in cases of de facto abolition. Such cases are overlooked in the literature, treated as brief interludes towards full abolition, though in fact they can be enduring and serve important symbolic functions. Informed by the historical‐institutional approach, which rejects teleology in favour of path dependence and contingency, the article focuses on the Israeli case, where since 1967 the death penalty remained a lawful option in military courts with jurisdiction over Palestinians, but never applied. I argue that such remarkable stability is not due to inertia, but an unanticipated result of contingent events and processes leading over time to entrenchment of a ‘limbo’ arrangement, which constitute intentional, functional, policy.

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Section: The Peculiar Case Of the Israeli Death Penaltymentioning

confidence: 99%

Symbolic laws, de facto abolitions and path dependence: When death penalty policies remain stable

Dudai

2023

Howard J Crime Justice

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“…strengthening human rights (Chané and Sharma 2016) or democracy (Hecht 2017). However, states do not just envisage substantive effects; some may even support resolutions banning the death penalty, despite the domestic use of capital punishment (Pascoe and Bae 2021). States might be indifferent to substantive effects because the UNGA is a softlaw body, which means enforcement is not ensured.…”

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“…', Dijkhuizen and Onderco 2019) and not to build and expand datasets iteratively, aiming to disseminate sponsorship metrics. Secondly, they exhibit a bias towards certain areas and actors, noticeably, the EU (Drieskens et al 2014;Smith 2017) and human rights-related issues (Beauguitte 2011;Chané and Sharma 2016;Pascoe and Bae 2021). And thirdly, they fail to grasp the complexities of the drafting process, overlooking key intricacies that impact final results.…”

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Beyond Roll-Call Voting: Sponsorship Dynamics at the UN General Assembly

Seabra

Mesquita

2022

International Studies Quarterly

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Research on the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has often privileged analyses on voting patterns, that is, how countries position themselves whenever a resolution is brought to a vote in each plenary session. However, voted resolutions comprise only a fraction of UNGA output, and much is still unknown about how countries behave before casting any votes. What takes place prior to and leading up to the adoption of resolutions? Even though the study of draft sponsorship remains underdeveloped, it can comprise a more valid empirical strategy to infer state preferences. This research note introduces the UN General Assembly Sponsorship Dataset, which encompasses the sponsorship behavior of every UNGA member from 2009 to 2019. We develop two novel empirical indices, priority and ownership, in order to ascertain draft relevance for each member state. We also use the new data to test longstanding arguments over vote-buying and North versus South coalitions in the UNGA. Our findings confirm mainstream conclusions for the former but challenge prevailing assumptions on the latter.

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Co-sponsorship, note verbale, and association behaviour at the UNGA: an analysis of the death penalty moratorium resolutions

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Symbolic laws, de facto abolitions and path dependence: When death penalty policies remain stable

Symbolic laws, de facto abolitions and path dependence: When death penalty policies remain stable

Beyond Roll-Call Voting: Sponsorship Dynamics at the UN General Assembly

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