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Agent skill stack for manuscripts targeted at World Politics — a leading quarterly journal of comparative politics and international relations, founded in 1948 and produced under the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) at Princeton University, published by Johns Hopkins University Press (Cambridge University Press hosted it through 2022). World Politics "aims to publish outstanding scholarship in the fields of international relations and comparative politics" — theory and original empirics, across quantitative, qualitative, comparative-historical, experimental, and formal-empirical methods.
This repository is opinionated. It is not a generic social-science writing toolbox and it is not a generalist political-science pack with the names swapped. It is a World Politics–specific stack built around the one thing that defines the journal: it is a comparative-politics + IR specialist. The contribution must travel across cases or systems, sit squarely in comparative politics or international relations, and stay out of the categories World Politics explicitly does not publish.
World Politics' constraints differ from a discipline-wide flagship and from a pure-IR journal:
| Constraint | World Politics | Implication |
|---|---|---|
| Sponsor / publisher | PIIRS, Princeton / Johns Hopkins University Press (Cambridge ≤ 2022) | Submitted via ScholarOne (mc.manuscriptcentral.com/wp) |
| Scope | Comparative politics + international relations — a specialist, not generalist | The question must sit in CP/IR and travel across cases |
| Premium on | A substantive question that advances theoretical debate + original empirics | A single-case description that doesn't travel is off-fit |
| Methods | Quantitative, qualitative, comparative-historical, experimental, formal — judged on own terms | Match method to a cross-case question |
| Review model | Triple-blind (author, readers, editors) | Anonymize fully; anonymity preserved through the decision |
| Length | ≤ 12,500 words including notes and references; tables/figures/appendixes excluded | Notes and references eat the budget; plan exhibits out |
| Online supplement | ≤ 15 pages, used judiciously | Not an unlimited appendix — cap your overflow |
| Abstract | ≤ 150 words | Question + approach + findings |
| Article types | Research articles + review articles (the latter usually commissioned) | Choose the right type; review articles ≠ book reviews |
| Data policy | Quantitative data → World Politics Dataverse after acceptance, before publication | Build a re-runnable package; embargoes ≤ 2 yrs by approval |
| Out of scope | No opinion/policy pieces, stand-alone political theory, historical or journalistic narratives | Don't send these — they are explicit non-fits |
Volatile specifics (publisher of record, editors and term, exact limits, embargo terms, policy wording)
change — items not directly confirmed are marked 待核实 in
resources/official-source-map.md. The publisher site often returns
HTTP 403 to automated fetches; verify on the official journal page.
- Comparative + IR specialist — it must travel. Unlike the discipline-wide APSR / AJPS / JOP, World Politics is a specialist: the contribution must sit in comparative politics or international relations and generalize beyond a single case. A great paper on one country must be a case of something, not just about that country.
- Comparative, not IR-only. Unlike a pure-IR venue (e.g., International Organization), World Politics centers comparative politics on equal footing with IR, and prizes work at their intersection (domestic institutions ↔ international behavior). A purely IR-theoretic piece with no comparative leverage or empirics is a poor fit.
- Two article types, both triple-blind. Beyond research articles, World Politics publishes review articles that synthesize thematically related books and reframe a field's agenda (distinct from book reviews; usually commissioned). All manuscripts — even commissioned ones — go through triple-blind review.
- Research article — full original study (theory + original empirics) on a comparative/IR question that travels, ≤ 12,500 words including notes and references, with an online supplement ≤ 15 pages.
- Review article — analyzes and compares a set of thematically related books and advances how the field should pursue future work. Usually commissioned; confirm with the editors before drafting (待核实).
/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/wp-skills
/plugin install wp-skills
/reload-pluginsgit clone https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/wp-skills.git
cd wp-skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -R skills/wp-* ~/.claude/skills/
# or
mkdir -p ~/.codex/skills && cp -R skills/wp-* ~/.codex/skills/Use wp-workflow to tell me which skill I should use next for my World Politics manuscript.
wp-topic-selection
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wp-literature-positioning
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wp-theory-building
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wp-research-design
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wp-data-analysis
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wp-tables-figures
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wp-writing-style (polish)
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wp-transparency-and-data-policy
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wp-review-process
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wp-submission
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wp-rebuttal
wp-workflow is the router — it tells you which skill to use next based on where you are. Its first
job is to confirm the question travels across cases and sits in comparative politics or IR; if you
are preparing a review article, it routes you to positioning and theory-building first.
| Skill | Purpose |
|---|---|
wp-workflow |
Router — decides which sub-skill to invoke next |
wp-topic-selection |
CP/IR fit and the "travels across cases" test; research vs. review article |
wp-literature-positioning |
Locate the paper in a live cross-case CP/IR debate; bridge comparative ↔ IR |
wp-theory-building |
Build a portable argument — mechanisms, scope conditions, what travels |
wp-research-design |
Defend the design — comparative-historical, cross-national, qualitative, formal |
wp-data-analysis |
Cross-national inference, robustness, measurement that travels, triangulation |
wp-tables-figures |
Self-contained, accessible exhibits; the ≤ 15-page online-supplement budget |
wp-writing-style |
World Politics house style; read across cases within ≤ 12,500 words |
wp-transparency-and-data-policy |
World Politics Dataverse package; embargoes; qualitative transparency |
wp-review-process |
Triple-blind review, reviewer norms, scope screening, APSA human subjects |
wp-submission |
ScholarOne preflight (anonymization, word limit, abstract, double-spacing) |
wp-rebuttal |
R&R response memo (≤ ~5 pages) for multiple anonymous reviewers + editors |
resources/external_tools.md— comparative + IR data sources (V-Dem / Polity / COW / UCDP / ACLED / CSES / Manifesto Project) + R / Stata / Python and QCA/CAQDAS toolingresources/official-source-map.md— official PIIRS / JHU / Cambridge URLs behind every fact, with 待核实 markers on unverified items
- It does not write a submittable manuscript for you
- It does not simulate any specific editor's or reviewer's taste
- It does not assert volatile metadata (publisher of record, current editors, exact limits, embargo terms, policy wording) — verify on the official page; unverified items are marked 待核实
- It does not decide whether your question travels across cases — that is the researcher's call
- awesome-journal-skills — Index of journal-specific skill packs
- World Politics (PIIRS, Princeton) — journal home, reviewer guidelines, Dataverse
- World Politics (Cambridge Core) — archive and author instructions
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