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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.
organization of government across regimes.
punctuated equilibrium, advocacy coalitions, design.
agencification, NPM/post-NPM, administrative capacity and reform.
multilevel governance, accountability regimes.
(engage but do not slide into a pure Regulation & Governance framing).
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.
| If the gap is framed for… | The natural venue is… | To make it a Governance contribution… |
|---|---|---|
| US practitioners / administrative practice | PAR (ASPA) | recast as a comparative/institutional claim about governing |
| Pure PA theory development | JPART | tie the theory to executive politics or the state comparatively |
| Policy analysis / program evaluation, cost-benefit | JPAM | foreground the institutional/political logic, not the evaluation |
| Regulatory-instrument design / the regulatory state per se | Regulation & 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.
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.
the kind of review Governance does not publish)
【Conversation joined】comparative governance / policy process / PA-executive / institutions / networks
【Dominant account】the explanation the field currently relies on
【The gap】where it is incomplete / contradicted / untested comparatively
【Audience check】this is a Governance (not PAR/JPART/JPAM/R&G) contribution because…
【Contribution preview】what the paper supplies
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