govern-literature-positioning
Use when situating a Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions manuscript in the comparative governance / public-policy / public-administration / institutions literatures and distinguishing it from sibling-journal audiences. Positions the contribution; it does not build the theory.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill govern-literature-positioning --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.
# Literature Positioning (govern-literature-positioning) A *Governance* paper must show it is in conversation with the **comparative-institutional community** — the SOG/IPSA RC27 readership and the broader fields of executive politics, public policy, public administration, and the study of the state. Positioning is not a citation dump; it is the argument for **why this gap matters to that community** and why *Governance* is the right venue. Engage the literature; build the argument in `govern-theory-building`. ## When to trigger - Drafting or revising the framing / literature section - A reviewer said the paper "doesn't engage the comparative literature" or "isn't a Governance contribution" - Unsure which scholarly conversation (and which journal's audience) you are joining - Establishing the gap the paper fills ## The literatures to engage (pick the ones you actually move) - **Comparative governance & the state** — state capacity, statehood, bureaucratic autonomy, the organization of government across regimes. - **Public policy & the policy process** — agenda-setting, instrument choice, policy feedback, diffusion, punctuated equilibrium, advocacy coalitions, design. - **Public adm
- When to trigger
- The literatures to engage (pick the ones you actually move)
- Speak to the SOG/IPSA comparative-institutional reader
- Positioning contract
- Sibling-journal audience map (whose conversation is this?)
- Situate the gap (not just name it)
- Gap stress test
- Literature section architecture
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the govern-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when situating a Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions manuscript in the comparative governance / public-policy / public-administration / institutions literatures and distinguishing it from sibling-journal audiences. Positions the contribution; it does not build the theory.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill govern-literature-positioning --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 984 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.