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cps-research-design
Use when defending the research design of a Comparative Political Studies (CPS) manuscript — cross-national/panel identification, case-based comparison and process tracing, experiments, or multi-method designs. CPS prizes comparative leverage. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
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# Research Design (cps-research-design)
CPS is methodologically pluralist but demanding about each tradition. The design must credibly connect
the comparative argument (`cps-theory-building`) to evidence and rule out the leading rival
(`cps-literature-positioning`). This skill is mode-aware: pick the section that matches your work and
defend the *comparative leverage* — the variation across cases or time that identifies the claim.
## When to trigger
- Specifying the identification strategy, case selection, or experimental design
- A reviewer questioned causal claims, case choice, external validity, comparability, or a confound
- Designing a cross-national panel, a subnational comparison, or a natural experiment across borders
- Justifying why the design adjudicates the rival account, not just shows an association
