jpart-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (JPART) manuscript against the public-administration literature so it reads as a theory contribution, not a fresh data point. JPART expects engagement with the specific PA conversation (PSM, red tape, representation, performance, governance) the paper advances. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jpart-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 (jpart-literature-positioning) JPART reviewers are public-management theorists. A paper that cites a pile of PA work but never names the **conversation it advances** reads as atheoretical and stalls. The goal is to place the paper inside a live PA debate and state precisely what it changes. ## When to trigger - Drafting or revising the introduction and the "contribution" paragraph - A reviewer said you "missed the core PA literature" or "don't engage the theory you claim to test" - Your empirics are clean but the framing doesn't connect to a named PA theory - You need to distinguish your contribution from the closest prior JPART/PAR papers ## How JPART wants the literature engaged 1. **Name the conversation, not a citation pile.** Identify the specific PA debate — e.g., *does PSM survive once selection is accounted for?*, *is red tape distinct from administrative burden?*, *does passive representation become active under which conditions?* Cite the works that *constitute* it. 2. **Engage the theory you claim to test.** If the paper is "about" representative bureaucracy or PSM, it must engage that theory's canonical statements and its current frontier — not
- When to trigger
- How JPART wants the literature engaged
- Contribution moves JPART reviewers can recognize
- Engagement depth by paper type
- Positioning audit
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the jpart-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (JPART) manuscript against the public-administration literature so it reads as a theory contribution, not a fresh data point. JPART expects engagement with the specific PA conversation (PSM, red tape, representation, performance, governance) the paper advances. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jpart-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 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.