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wp-theory-building
Use when building the theoretical argument of a World Politics manuscript so it travels across cases. World Politics rewards arguments that significantly advance theoretical debates in comparative politics and international relations, with explicit mechanisms and scope conditions that generalize beyond one case. Structures the argument; it does not run analyses.
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# Theory & Argument Building (wp-theory-building)
At World Politics a finding is not a contribution until it is attached to **theory the field can carry
to other cases.** The journal asks articles to "significantly advance theoretical debates" — so this
skill turns case evidence into a portable argument: explicit mechanisms, scope conditions, and
observable implications that hold across comparative or IR settings.
## When to trigger
- The empirics are strong but the "so what / why it travels" is thin
- A reviewer said the paper is "atheoretical," "ad hoc," or "just a single-case story"
- You need to state mechanisms, assumptions, and scope conditions explicitly
- Formal modeling: deciding what to model for a comparative/IR puzzle
