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British Journal of Political Science Skills
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Agent skill stack for manuscripts targeted at the British Journal of Political Science (BJPS / BJPolS) — a leading general political-science journal, founded in 1971 and published by Cambridge University Press. BJPS is broadly based and internationally oriented: it aims to cover developments across a wide range of countries and specialisms, publishing across the whole discipline — comparative politics, international relations, political theory, political behaviour and public opinion, political economy, and political methodology — quantitative, qualitative, formal, experimental, computational, and interpretive alike, and it welcomes work from related disciplines (sociology, social psychology, economics, philosophy).
This repository is opinionated. It is not a generic social-science writing toolbox and it is not an economics pack repurposed for politics. It is a BJPS-specific stack: a question of wide political-science interest that travels beyond a single subfield and a single country, an argument that is portable, a design defended on its own methodological terms, double-blind preparation, and a replication-data package deposited to the BJPolS Dataverse on Harvard Dataverse at acceptance.
Official basis checked 2026-06 (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准) — see resources/official-source-map.md for every source URL and the 待核实 markers on unverified items.
What Is BJPS, and Why a Dedicated Stack?
BJPS's constraints differ from a US flagship, a comparative specialist, or a methods journal:
| Constraint | BJPS | Implication |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | Whole discipline, internationally oriented | The paper must travel beyond one subfield and one country |
| Premium on | Wide interest + a clear, portable contribution | A narrow, single-case-framed result is off-fit |
| Methods | Quantitative, qualitative, formal, experimental, interpretive — judged on own terms | Do not force one template onto every paper |
| Publisher / owner | Cambridge University Press (assoc. British Academy) | Submitted via the journal's online portal, not a US system |
| Review model | Double-blind, usually ≥ 2 referees | Anonymize the manuscript; remove funding notes + self-references |
| Fee | No submission fee stated; Comments carry no APC | Do not budget a submission fee; verify any OA APC |
| Length | Research Articles ~10,000 words; Letters ~4,000; abstract ≤ 150 (待核实) | Choose the right format up front |
| Style | Cambridge house style — Harvard author-date | Not Chicago/APSA; MS Word or LaTeX accepted |
| Transparency | DA-RT signatory; replication data + code to the BJPolS Dataverse at acceptance | Build the package as you go |
| Distinctive formats | Research Articles + Letters (short papers) + Comments | A Letter is a complete short paper, not a truncated Article |
Volatile specifics (editors and term, exact caps, fee/APC, portal URL, policy wording) change — items not directly confirmed are marked 待核实 in resources/official-source-map.md. Verify on the official journal page.
Three publication formats
- Research Articles — the discipline's main research format, ~10,000 words (待核实).
- Letters — focused, complete short contributions, ~4,000 words (待核实).
- Comments — critiques, corrections, or reappraisals of a specific published BJPS article (no APC).
Quick Start
Option A — Claude Code Plugin (recommended)
/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills
/plugin install british-journal-of-political-science-skills
/reload-pluginsOption B — Manual Copy
git clone https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills.git
cd awesome-journal-skills/British-Journal-of-Political-Science-Skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -R skills/bjps-* ~/.claude/skills/
# or
mkdir -p ~/.codex/skills && cp -R skills/bjps-* ~/.codex/skills/First Prompt
Use bjps-workflow to tell me which skill I should use next for my BJPS manuscript.Default Workflow
bjps-topic-selection
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bjps-literature-positioning
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bjps-theory-building
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bjps-research-design
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bjps-data-analysis
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bjps-tables-figures
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bjps-writing-style (polish)
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bjps-transparency-and-data
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bjps-review-process
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bjps-submission
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bjps-rebuttalbjps-workflow is the router — it tells you which skill to use next based on where you are. If your contribution is a focused single result, consider the Letter format; if you are critiquing a published BJPS finding, consider a Comment.
Skills
| Skill | Purpose |
|---|---|
bjps-workflow | Router — decides which sub-skill to invoke next |
bjps-topic-selection | Wide-interest fit across subfields and countries; pick the right format |
bjps-literature-positioning | Engage the cross-subfield, cross-national debate BJPS readers expect |
bjps-theory-building | Build the argument (formal, interpretive, or empirical) into a portable contribution |
bjps-research-design | Defend the design — causal inference, case selection, experiments, formal |
bjps-data-analysis | Analysis norms, uncertainty, robustness, cross-national measurement |
bjps-tables-figures | Accessible, self-contained exhibits sized to Cambridge's limits |
bjps-writing-style | Cambridge Harvard author-date; reach a broad readership within the word cap |
bjps-transparency-and-data | BJPolS Dataverse replication package; DA-RT; qualitative transparency; exemptions |
bjps-review-process | Double-blind review, desk screen, referee count, decision categories |
bjps-submission | Submission preflight (anonymization, word count, ORCID, abstract) |
bjps-rebuttal | R&R response-letter strategy for multiple referees + editor |
Resources
resources/code/— reproducible Stata + Python causal-inference skeleton (DiD / IV / RDD / DML / mechanism / robustness / tables), vendored for self-containmentresources/external_tools.md— political-science data sources (V-Dem / CSES / ESS / WVS / COW / ACLED / Manifesto Project / KOF) + R / Stata / Python and qualitative/CAQDAS toolingresources/worked-examples/01-introduction.md— a before→after BJPS-style introduction (fictional)resources/exemplars/library.md— verified real BJPS papers by subfield × method, with a sibling-journal guardrailresources/official-source-map.md— official Cambridge / BJPS URLs behind every fact, with 待核实 markers on unverified items
Differences vs. sibling journals
| Journal | Owner / publisher | Identity vs. BJPS |
|---|---|---|
| BJPS | Cambridge University Press | The broad, internationally-oriented general political-science journal; values wide interest across countries and subfields |
| APSR | APSA / Cambridge University Press | US discipline-wide flagship; double-anonymous; APSA Style; APSR Dataverse — a US generalist sibling |
| AJPS | Midwest PSA / Wiley | US general flagship with a strong empirical/quantitative reputation; not CUP |
| Comparative Political Studies (CPS) | SAGE | Comparative-politics specialist, not a discipline-wide generalist |
| World Politics | Cambridge University Press / Princeton | Comparative + IR specialist with a theory premium; narrower than BJPS's full-discipline remit |
Do not misattribute famous papers across these venues — see the omissions list in resources/exemplars/library.md.
What This Repo Does Not Do
- It does not write a submittable manuscript for you
- It does not simulate any specific editor's or referee's taste
- It does not assert volatile metadata (current editors and term, exact caps, fee/APC, portal, policy wording) — verify on the official page; unverified items are marked 待核实
- It does not decide whether your question is of wide disciplinary interest — that is the researcher's call
Related
- awesome-journal-skills — Index of journal-specific skill packs
- British Journal of Political Science (Cambridge Core) — publisher home, submission guidelines, policies
- BJPolS Dataverse (Harvard Dataverse) — replication-materials collection
License
MIT