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The JPR Best Visualization Award 2016 goes to Brandon J Kinne

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Published date01 March 2017
Date01 March 2017
DOIhttp://doi.org/10.1177/0022343317695003
The JPR Best Visualization Award 2016
goes to
Brandon J Kinne
The jury consisting of Nils B Weidmann (University of Konstanz), Hanne Fjelde (Uppsala University) and Michael
D Ward (Duke University) has awarded the fourth JPR Best Visualization Award to Brandon J Kinne (University of
California, Davis). The prize-winning article is titled ‘Agreeing to arm: Bilateral weapons agreements and the global
arms trade’ and was published in the 2016 special issue on ‘Networked International Politics’, Journal of Peace
Research 53(3): 359–377. The author relies on different types of visualizations to illustrate key aspects of the theory,
the data used for the analysis, and the results. Two line graphs at the beginning of the article help to motivate the
research question. A set of carefully crafted, eye-catching network visualizations show the structure of the weapons
agreement networks examined in the article, and how they evolved over time. This is supplemented with a map to
illustrate the spatial distribution of these agreements. Finally, the author goes to great lengths to present the results
from the model estimation using coefficient plots, using color to highlight significant results. These plots also
illustrate how particular coefficients vary over time. The jury found this to be an impressive way to present a large
number of results effectively. Overall, Kinne’s article is exemplary not only because of its interesting analysis, but also
due to the number of aesthetically pleasing and informative graphics.
The award is USD 500.

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