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.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill govern-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 (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` ## (a) Comparative / causal designs (governance & institutions) - **Identification first.** State the estimand and the assumptions that license a causal reading (parallel trends, exclusion, continuity, ignorability). Defend them; don't assert them. - **Reform DiD / event study.** When a reform rolls out across units/countries over time, use **modern staggered-adoption estimators** (Callaway–Sant'An
- When to trigger
- (a) Comparative / causal designs (governance & institutions)
- (b) Qualitative / comparative-historical
- (c) Mixed methods
- (d) Measuring governance & institutions (caveats)
- The rival-institutional adjudication move (Governance-specific)
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the govern-research-design skill do?
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.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill govern-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.