govern-tables-figures
Use when building tables and figures for a Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions manuscript so exhibits carry comparative/institutional arguments across countries and are self-contained, accessible, and grayscale-legible. Designs cross-national tables, regression tables, coefficient/event-study plots, and maps; it does not run the analysis.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill govern-tables-figures --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.
# Tables & Figures (govern-tables-figures) In a *Governance* paper the exhibits are where a comparative reviewer checks whether the institutional claim actually **travels**. A single-country result dressed up as a wall of coefficients reads as parochial; a clean cross-national table or a coefficient plot that shows where the effect holds and where it does not reads as a contribution to how the state governs. With a working cap of **≤ 9,000 words excluding citations/bibliography** (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准), every exhibit must earn its place, and the heavy robustness grids belong in the supplementary file, not the article. ## When to trigger - Designing the main results table/figure or the key descriptive comparative exhibit - Showing cross-country / cross-institution variation (a map, a small-multiples panel, a forest plot) - Deciding what stays in the article vs. moves to supplementary material - A reviewer found an exhibit unclear, single-country-parochial, or not self-contained ## Principles 1. **Self-contained.** A reader understands each exhibit from its caption, column/axis labels, and note alone — units, sample, time window, country/case set, N, and what the estimate is. State the
- When to trigger
- Principles
- Comparative-governance exhibit menu
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the govern-tables-figures skill do?
Use when building tables and figures for a Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions manuscript so exhibits carry comparative/institutional arguments across countries and are self-contained, accessible, and grayscale-legible. Designs cross-national tables, regression tables, coefficient/event-study plots, and maps; it does not run the analysis.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill govern-tables-figures --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.