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Use when drafting or polishing the prose of a Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) manuscript — a clear policy implication stated without overclaiming, legible to economists, political scientists, public-management scholars, and practitioners. Improves clarity and calibration; it does not change the analysis.

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# Writing Style (jpam-writing-style)

The JPAM house voice is **clear, calibrated, and decision-oriented**. A JPAM paper earns its place by
stating a **policy implication the design actually supports** — neither buried in hedges nor inflated
beyond what was identified. Write for a reader who may be an economist, a political scientist, a public-
management scholar, or a practitioner, and who wants to know: what did you find, how credible is it, and
what should we do about it.

## When to trigger

- Drafting the abstract, introduction, or the policy-implications / conclusion section
- A reviewer said the paper "overclaims," "buries the finding," or "isn't legible to non-economists"
- Calibrating the strength of the policy recommendation to the evidence
- Tightening jargon for the cross-disciplinary APPAM audience
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