The Nils Petter Gleditsch JPR article of the Year Award, 2022, goes to Sandra Ley
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/00223433231161021 |
| Published date | 01 March 2023 |
| Date | 01 March 2023 |
The Nils Petter Gleditsch JPR article
of the Year Award, 2022, goes to
Sandra Ley
A jury consisting of Aysegul Aydin (University of Colorado - Boulder), Karin Dyrstad (Norwegian University of
Science and Technology), and Brian J Phillips (University of Essex) has awarded this year’s Nils Petter Gleditsch
Article of the Year to Sandra Ley (Centro de Investigacio
´n y Docencia Econo
´micas - CIDE) for her article entitled
“High-risk participation: Demanding peace and justice amid criminal violence”(JPR 59: 6). All articles published in
Volume 59 of the JPR were eligible for the award. Articles were judged based on their theoretical contribution,
methodological sophistication and substantive relevance.
The jury found the award-winning article to be theoretically very well-developed and brilliantly adopting a mixed
methods design to answer critical questions about collective action and protest behavior. Ley’s work seeks to
understand when citizens mobilize in the face of serious violence. The article offers important insights into the
mechanisms through which victimization leads to collective action. With a carefully crafted research design that
includes descriptive data, statistical analysis using original survey data, and qualitative evidence including both
participatory observation and interviews, Ley shows that social networks have largely been the workhorse of protest
activity. The article draws conclusions that have implications for peace and conflict studies as well as broader issues
like democracy and social movements.
In addition to the winning article, the jury has identified three runners-up. First, in her article “How war-related
deprivation affects political participation: Evidence from education loss in Liberia” (JPR 59: 3), Shelley X Liu combines
theoretical sophistication with a strong causal design and qualitative evidence to show that war-related loss of
education leads to reduced political participation in the postwar democracy. Second, in his article “Diverse neighbors
and post-conflict recovery at the village level: Evidence from Iraq after ISIL” (59: 4), Lloyd Lyall provides novel empirical
evidence to show proximity to outgroup neighbors is associated with slower post-war settlement recovery. Finally, in
his article “Local ethno-political polarization and election violence in majoritarian vs. proportional systems” (JPR 59: 2),
Carl Mu
¨ller-Crepon combines a variety of data sourc es in a sophisticated empirical design to show that local
competition between politically mobilized ethnic groups increases the risk of violence before majoritarian but not
proportional legislative elections. All these articles combine careful theorizing on a policy-relevant topic with
impressive empirical designs that push the research frontier significantly forward.
The award is USD 1,000.
Honourable mention goes to the runners-up:
Shelley X Liu (2022) How war-related deprivation affects political participation: Evidence from education loss in Liberia.
JPR 59(3): 353-366.
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