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Use when positioning a Public Opinion Quarterly (POQ) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution to public-opinion or survey-methodology scholarship. POQ readers span opinion theory, communication, political behavior, and survey methods, so the paper must engage the right literatures and show the methodological lineage. Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.
When to use
- Drafting or revising the introduction and contribution paragraph
- Addressing reviewer feedback about missing obvious work or survey-methods literature
- Distinguishing contribution from closest prior papers
- Engaging substantive and methodological literatures simultaneously
- Naming the gap precisely in opinion or survey science
- Pre-empting obvious objections regarding coverage, nonresponse, or mode
- Building a three-column map of incumbent conversation, tension, and delta
- Comparing against sibling venues like Political Analysis or Journal of Politics
When not to use
- Writing the full literature review
- Self-citation that breaks anonymity
- Claiming 'first to study' for incremental contributions
- Strawmanning prior work or hiding the closest competitor paper
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