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apsr-literature-positioning
Use when positioning an American Political Science Review (APSR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a discipline-wide contribution. APSR readers span subfields, so the paper must engage the literatures they expect and avoid the desk-rejection trigger of "failure to engage the relevant literatures." Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.
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# Literature Positioning (apsr-literature-positioning)
APSR's peer-review policy lists **"failure to engage the relevant literature(s)"** as an explicit
**desk-rejection** ground. Positioning is therefore not throat-clearing — it is survival. The goal is
to place the paper where a **general** political-science audience can see the gap and the move.
## When to trigger
- Drafting or revising the introduction and the "contribution" paragraph
- A reviewer said you "missed obvious work" or "don't engage the debate"
- Your subfield literature is solid but the paper doesn't connect to the broader discipline
- You need to distinguish your contribution from the closest prior papers
## How APSR wants the literature engaged