Agent skill

Govern Literature Positioning

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses when situating a Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions manuscript in the comparative governance / public-policy /…

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Install Govern Literature Positioning

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill govern-literature-positioning -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills govern-literature-positioning --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-literature-positioning .claude/skills/govern-literature-positioning && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
govern-literature-positioning
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~2k tokens
SKILL.md length
875 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when situating a Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions manuscript in the comparative governance / public-policy /…

  • Works in 4 steps: Name the Governance conversation and the… → Show the comparative-institutional… → Use the focal case/data to justify why… → …
  • Situating a Governance: An International Journal of Policy
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The literatures to engage…, Speak to the SOG/IPSA… and Positioning contract, plus 7 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Govern Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when situating a Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions manuscript in the comparative governance / public-policy / public-administration / institutions literatures and distinguishing it from sibling-journal audiences. Positions the contribution; it does not build the theory.

Its SKILL.md is about 2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Marketing & SEO, covering Positioning and messaging. The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Situating a Governance: An International Journal of Policy
  • Tasks that involve Positioning and messaging

Example prompts

  • “/govern-literature-positioning”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Name the Governance conversation and the accepted explanation.
  2. Show the comparative-institutional tension or boundary condition.
  3. Use the focal case/data to justify why the tension can be observed here.
  4. Preview the paper's portable contribution without overclaiming beyond the evidence.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Govern Literature Positioning loads about 2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 88 tokens; SKILL.md has 875 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~88
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 875 words, ~2,006 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/govern-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
govern-literature-positioning
description
Use when situating a Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions manuscript in the comparative governance / public-policy / public-administration / institutions literatures and distinguishing it from sibling-journal audiences. Positions the contribution; it does not build the theory.

Literature Positioning (govern-literature-positioning)

A Governance paper must show it is in conversation with the comparative-institutional community — the SOG/IPSA RC27 readership and the broader fields of executive politics, public policy, public administration, and the study of the state. Positioning is not a citation dump; it is the argument for why this gap matters to that community and why Governance is the right venue. Engage the literature; build the argument in govern-theory-building.

When to trigger

  • Drafting or revising the framing / literature section
  • A reviewer said the paper "doesn't engage the comparative literature" or "isn't a Governance contribution"
  • Unsure which scholarly conversation (and which journal's audience) you are joining
  • Establishing the gap the paper fills

The literatures to engage (pick the ones you actually move)

  • Comparative governance & the state — state capacity, statehood, bureaucratic autonomy, the organization of government across regimes.
  • Public policy & the policy process — agenda-setting, instrument choice, policy feedback, diffusion, punctuated equilibrium, advocacy coalitions, design.
  • Public administration & executive politics — delegation, political control of bureaucracy, agencification, NPM/post-NPM, administrative capacity and reform.
  • Institutions — institutional change (layering, conversion, drift), historical institutionalism, multilevel governance, accountability regimes.
  • Governance networks & regulatory governance — coordination, meta-governance, the regulatory state (engage but do not slide into a pure Regulation & Governance framing).

Speak to the SOG/IPSA comparative-institutional reader

This reader prizes portability and comparison. Make the positioning answer: what does this teach a scholar working on a different country or policy domain? A finding anchored only in one national administrative tradition, addressed only to its national specialists, reads as off-venue here.

Positioning contract

Before drafting the literature section, write a four-line contract and keep it visible while revising:

Contract lineTest
ConversationWhich Governance community is being addressed: executive politics, public policy, public administration, institutions, or the organization of the state?
Portable problemWhat puzzle survives outside the focal country, agency, or policy sector?
Mechanism or institutional logicWhat concept travels: delegation, capacity, accountability, coordination, institutional change, or state authority?
Boundary conditionWhere should the claim not travel, and why does that make the comparison sharper rather than narrower?

If any line is blank, the section is not ready for prose. Do not compensate with more citations; fix the positioning first.

Sibling-journal audience map (whose conversation is this?)

If the gap is framed for…The natural venue is…To make it a Governance contribution…
US practitioners / administrative practicePAR (ASPA)recast as a comparative/institutional claim about governing
Pure PA theory developmentJPARTtie the theory to executive politics or the state comparatively
Policy analysis / program evaluation, cost-benefitJPAMforeground the institutional/political logic, not the evaluation
Regulatory-instrument design / the regulatory state per seRegulation & Governance (Wiley sibling)show comparative reach across policy domains or countries

If, after positioning, the paper sits more naturally in a sibling journal, return to govern-topic-selection — better to reframe now than to be desk-rejected for fit.

Situate the gap (not just name it)

A Governance gap statement earns its place when it: (1) names the dominant account others rely on; (2) shows the specific point where it is incomplete, contradicted, or untested comparatively; and (3) states what the paper supplies that the field cannot currently get elsewhere. "Under-studied" is not a gap; "the leading explanation predicts X but cross-national variation shows Y" is.

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Gap stress test

Use these tests to decide whether the gap belongs in Governance or needs reframing.

Weak gapWhy it failsStronger Governance version
"Country X has not been studied"novelty is geographic, not theoretical"Country X reveals a boundary condition in how institutional capacity travels across regime or policy settings"
"Policy Y is important"importance is substantive but not institutional"Policy Y exposes a coordination, delegation, or accountability mechanism that changes how we understand governing"
"Prior studies disagree"disagreement is descriptive unless the source is diagnosed"The disagreement comes from competing assumptions about state authority, policy feedback, or administrative capacity"
"The case is unique"uniqueness blocks portability"The case is strategically unusual because it isolates a mechanism that is hidden in more typical settings"

After the stress test, assign every major citation a role: dominant account, competing account, boundary condition, method precedent, or empirical comparator. Citations with no role are candidates for deletion.

Literature section architecture

Build the section in four moves:

  1. Name the Governance conversation and the accepted explanation.
  2. Show the comparative-institutional tension or boundary condition.
  3. Use the focal case/data to justify why the tension can be observed here.
  4. Preview the paper's portable contribution without overclaiming beyond the evidence.

Keep national or sector-specific citations in service of move 3. If they dominate moves 1-2, the paper is probably framed for a specialist area journal rather than Governance.

Anti-patterns

  • A literature section that lists citations without an argument about the gap (and risks reading like the kind of review Governance does not publish)
  • Engaging only one national PA literature, ignoring the comparative-institutional community
  • Citing the policy-process canon but never saying which claim you revise
  • Positioning for a PAR/JPART/JPAM/Regulation & Governance audience while submitting to Governance
  • Burying the contribution under a wall of "X argues… Y argues…" with no synthesis
  • Treating one-country novelty as sufficient without a portable institutional problem
  • Keeping citations that have no assigned role in the argument

Output format

【Conversation joined】comparative governance / policy process / PA-executive / institutions / networks
【Positioning contract】conversation + portable problem + mechanism + boundary condition
【Dominant account】the explanation the field currently relies on
【The gap】where it is incomplete / contradicted / untested comparatively
【Citation roles】dominant / competing / boundary / method / comparator; delete unassigned citations
【Audience check】this is a Governance (not PAR/JPART/JPAM/R&G) contribution because…
【Contribution preview】what the paper supplies
【Next】govern-theory-building

Supplementary resources

© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-literature-positioning of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Govern Literature Positioning

What does Govern Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when situating a Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions manuscript in the comparative governance / public-policy /…. Govern Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when situating a Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions manuscript in the comparative governance / public-policy / public-administration / institutions literatures and distinguishing it from sibling-journal audiences.

When should I use Govern Literature Positioning?

Govern Literature Positioning fits situations like: situating a Governance: An International Journal of Policy; tasks that involve Positioning and messaging.

How do I install Govern Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill govern-literature-positioning -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-literature-positioning in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/govern-literature-positioning in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Govern Literature Positioning in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill govern-literature-positioning -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Governance-Journal-Skills/skills/govern-literature-positioning in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/govern-literature-positioning in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Govern Literature Positioning in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill govern-literature-positioning -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/govern-literature-positioning, .gemini/skills/govern-literature-positioning, .github/skills/govern-literature-positioning and .opencode/skills/govern-literature-positioning in your project.

What does Govern Literature Positioning need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Govern Literature Positioning is instructions for the agent only.

Does Govern Literature Positioning access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Govern Literature Positioning safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Govern Literature Positioning use?

Govern Literature Positioning is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Govern Literature Positioning use?

About 2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Govern Literature Positioning?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

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