cps-research-design
Use when defending the research design of a Comparative Political Studies (CPS) manuscript — cross-national/panel identification, case-based comparison and process tracing, experiments, or multi-method designs. CPS prizes comparative leverage. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cps-research-design --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Research Design (cps-research-design) CPS is methodologically pluralist but demanding about each tradition. The design must credibly connect the comparative argument (`cps-theory-building`) to evidence and rule out the leading rival (`cps-literature-positioning`). This skill is mode-aware: pick the section that matches your work and defend the *comparative leverage* — the variation across cases or time that identifies the claim. ## When to trigger - Specifying the identification strategy, case selection, or experimental design - A reviewer questioned causal claims, case choice, external validity, comparability, or a confound - Designing a cross-national panel, a subnational comparison, or a natural experiment across borders - Justifying why the design adjudicates the rival account, not just shows an association ## Comparative-causal toolkit (cross-national / panel) - **Identification first.** State the estimand and the assumptions that license a causal reading (parallel trends, exclusion, continuity, ignorability). Defend them; don't assert them. - **Designs**: cross-national panels with unit and period fixed effects; DiD/event study around reforms (use modern staggered-adoption
- When to trigger
- Comparative-causal toolkit (cross-national / panel)
- Case-based / qualitative comparison
- Experiments (survey / field, fielded comparatively)
- Multi-method linkage
- The adjudication test (CPS-specific)
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the cps-research-design skill do?
Use when defending the research design of a Comparative Political Studies (CPS) manuscript — cross-national/panel identification, case-based comparison and process tracing, experiments, or multi-method designs. CPS prizes comparative leverage. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cps-research-design --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.