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wp-research-design
Use when defending the research design of a World Politics manuscript — comparative-historical and case selection, quantitative cross-national identification, qualitative process tracing, experiments, or formal-empirical linkage for cross-case questions. World Politics expects explicit research design and appropriate methods, judged on each tradition's own terms. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
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# Research Design (wp-research-design)
World Politics asks every article to "be explicit about its research design and use appropriate
methods," and applies separate expectations to quantitative and qualitative work. Because the journal
values **arguments that travel across cases**, the design must connect a portable argument
(`wp-theory-building`) to evidence in a way that **rules out the strongest cross-case rival**. This
skill is mode-aware: pick the section that matches your work.
## When to trigger
- Specifying case selection, identification, or experimental design for a cross-case question
- A reviewer questioned causal claims, case choice, external validity, or a confound
- Justifying why your design adjudicates the rival account from `wp-literature-positioning`
