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io-research-design
Use when defending the research design of an International Organization (IO) manuscript on international-level questions — causal identification with dyadic/TSCS/network data, case selection and process tracing for international cases, survey/conjoint experiments on foreign-policy attitudes, or formal-empirical linkage. IO judges each IR tradition on its own terms and verifies results and proofs before final acceptance. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
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# Research Design (io-research-design)
IO accepts quantitative, formal, and qualitative IR work but is demanding about each. The design must
credibly connect the **IR theory** (`io-theory-building`) to evidence at or across the **international
level**, and rule out the strongest rival international explanation. This skill is mode-aware: pick the
section that matches your work.
## When to trigger
- Specifying identification, case selection, or experimental design for an IR question
- A reviewer questioned causal claims, the level of analysis, generalization, or a confound
- Preparing a pre-analysis plan for a foreign-policy experiment
- Justifying why the design adjudicates the rival IR account from `io-literature-positioning`
