%0 Journal Article
%T Taking center stage: Decoding status hierarchies from group photos of European leaders
%A Magnus Lundgren
%J European Union Politics
%@ 1741-2757
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1465116518785057
%X I investigate whether group photos of international leaders can provide useful data on interstate status perceptions. I formulate a spatial model of social hierarchy and evaluate it against newly gathered data on the placement of leaders in 121 European Council group photos between 1975 and 2015. I find support for determinants of placement at the international, institutional, and individual levels. The results suggest that: (a) group photos provide a previously untapped source of data on international status; (b) data derived from group photos can supplement existing status proxies based on material capabilities or diplomatic connectivity; (c) group pictures can be particularly useful for discerning status hierarchies among sets of relatively homogenous countries, such as those of the European Union
%K European Union
%K G-20
%K hierarchy
%K international status
%K methodology
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1465116518785057