jop-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a The Journal of Politics (JOP) manuscript in the literature — staking a theoretically innovative, general-interest contribution while keeping the manuscript double-blind. JOP's page budget forces an efficient literature section, so engage the debates that matter without a survey. Frames the contribution; it does not write the paper.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jop-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 (jop-literature-positioning) JOP rewards a **theoretically innovative** contribution pitched to a **general** political-science reader. The literature section must earn its space against the **page budget**: engage the debates the paper actually moves, not a survey — and do it **double-blind**, without outing yourself. ## When to trigger - Drafting or tightening the framing/literature section - A reviewer said the contribution is "unclear," "incremental," or "ignores X" - The literature review is eating too many of your 35 (or 10) pages - Neutralizing self-citations for double-blind review ## How to position for JOP 1. **Name the conversation, then the gap.** State which general-interest debate you join and the specific opening your paper fills — a missing mechanism, a contested measure, an unresolved tension. Frame the gap as something a non-specialist would recognize as worth closing. 2. **Lead with the innovation.** JOP prizes theoretical innovation; say early and plainly what is new (argument, mechanism, measure, design, or corrected record) and why it matters beyond the subfield. 3. **Engage, don't survey.** Under the page budget, cite the works that d
- When to trigger
- How to position for JOP
- Staying double-blind in the literature section
- Budget the section against pages
- Anti-patterns
- Worked micro-example (illustrative)
- Referee pushback patterns and the JOP fix
- Positioning pass for Journal of Politics
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the jop-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a The Journal of Politics (JOP) manuscript in the literature — staking a theoretically innovative, general-interest contribution while keeping the manuscript double-blind. JOP's page budget forces an efficient literature section, so engage the debates that matter without a survey. Frames the contribution; it does not write the paper.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jop-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.