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jpart-research-design
Use when defending the research design of a Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (JPART) manuscript — survey/lab/field experiments on public employees and citizens, causal observational designs, multilevel structures, or mixed methods. JPART has moved strongly toward experimental and causal identification. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
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# Research Design (jpart-research-design)
JPART has moved toward **experimental and causal** identification, and reviewers expect the design to
connect the theory (`jpart-theory-building`) to evidence credibly. This skill is mode-aware: pick the
section that matches your work and defend it against the strongest alternative explanation a
public-management reviewer will raise.
## When to trigger
- Specifying identification, an experiment, sampling, or measurement
- A reviewer questioned causal claims, common-method bias, endogeneity, or external validity
- Preparing a **pre-analysis plan** / preregistration (JPART accepts blinded pre-reg reports)
- Justifying why the design adjudicates the rival account from `jpart-literature-positioning`
