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govern-research-design
Use when defending the research design of a Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions manuscript — comparative/causal designs for governance & institutions, qualitative & comparative-historical case logic, mixed methods, and the measurement of governance/institutions. Governance judges each tradition on its own terms. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
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# Research Design (govern-research-design)
*Governance* welcomes any rigorous approach but is demanding about each. The design must credibly
connect the argument (`govern-theory-building`) to comparative/institutional evidence and **rule out the
strongest rival institutional explanation**. This skill is mode-aware: pick the section that matches your
work. (For the conceptual contribution, this is the empirical-design variant.)
## When to trigger
- Specifying identification, case selection, or comparative design
- A reviewer questioned causal claims, case choice, country selection, or an institutional confound
- Choosing governance/institutions measures (V-Dem, QoG, WGI, etc.) and defending them
- Justifying why the design adjudicates the rival account from `govern-literature-positioning`
