The Nils Petter Gleditsch JPR Article of the Year Award, 2016, goes to Charles Miller and Benjamin S Barber IV
| DOI | 10.1177/0022343317695183 |
| Published date | 01 March 2017 |
| Date | 01 March 2017 |
The Nils Petter Gleditsch
JPR Article of the Year Award, 2016,
goes to
Charles Miller and Benjamin S Barber IV
A jury consisting of Indra de Soysa (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Emilie Hafner-Burton
(University of California, San Diego), and Vally Koubi (ETH, Zurich) has awarded the 2016 Journal of Peace
Research ‘Nils Petter Gleditsch Article of the Year Award’ to Charles Miller (Australian National University) and Ben-
jamin S Barber IV (IE Business School, Madrid). The jury was faced with the very difficult task of selecting one
winner from among several exceptionally good articles. The prize-winning article, ‘It’s only money: Do voters treat
human and financial sunk costs the same?’, Journal of Peace Research 53(1): 116–129, uses multiple survey experi-
ments about a hypothetical US military intervention to evaluate the effects of sunk costs on public opinion. The
authors find no evidence that sunk costs induce greater commitment to an intervention. Rather, public reaction
to sunk costs is contingent on the type of costs incurred: sunk financial costs induce a desire to cut losses, while sunk
costs involving US lives do not affect the public’s support for intervention. The article engages an important concept
in the academic and policy worlds, shows a high degree of methodological sophistication and rigour and provides new
evidence in support of an interesting proposition.
The award is USD 1,000.
Honourable mention goes to the runners-up:
Vera Mironova (University of Maryland & Harvard Kennedy School) and Sam Whitt (High Point University) ‘The
evolution of prosociality and parochialism after violence’, Journal of Peace Research 53(5): 648–664.
And
Benjamin Acosta (Louisiana State University) ‘Dying for survival: Why militant organizations continue to conduct
suicide attacks’, Journal of Peace Research 53(2): 180–196.
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