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eursr-research-design
Use when defending the research design of a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript — comparative cross-national designs, panel/longitudinal and event-history designs, multilevel structures, and causal inference where feasible on harmonized survey or register data. ESR judges whether the design lets the comparison or panel identify the mechanism. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
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# Research Design (eursr-research-design)
ESR is a quantitative journal exacting about whether the **comparative or longitudinal design actually
identifies the mechanism** from `eursr-theory-building` and rules out the leading confound. The design
must connect the cross-level hypothesis to evidence that a single cross-section could not provide.
## When to trigger
- Specifying the comparative frame, the panel structure, sampling, or the identification strategy
- A reviewer questioned causal claims, generalization, selection, measurement comparability, or a confound
- Justifying why your design adjudicates the rival account from `eursr-literature-positioning`
## Comparative / cross-national
- **Justify the country set** by design logic (institutional contrast, regime types, most/least-similar),