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jop-research-design
Use when defending the research design of a The Journal of Politics (JOP) manuscript — causal identification for quantitative work, experimental and survey-experimental design, formal-empirical linkage, or case selection and process tracing for qualitative work. JOP is methodologically diverse and makes acceptance contingent on replicability, so design with reproducibility in mind. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
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# Research Design (jop-research-design)
JOP is **methodologically diverse** and demanding about each tradition. The design must credibly connect
the argument (`jop-theory-building`) to evidence — and, because **acceptance is contingent on
replicability**, it must be one a **JOP replication analyst** can re-run. This skill is mode-aware: pick
the section matching your work and defend it against the strongest alternative.
## When to trigger
- Specifying identification, case selection, or experimental design
- A reviewer questioned causal claims, case choice, external validity, or a confound
- Preparing a pre-analysis plan
- Justifying why your design adjudicates the rival account from `jop-literature-positioning`
