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ajps-literature-positioning

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Use when positioning an American Journal of Political Science (AJPS) manuscript against the literature. AJPS is double-blind, so positioning must engage the relevant debates while keeping the manuscript fully anonymized (third-person self-citation, no first-person "we showed"). Stakes the contribution; it does not write the lit review.

When to use

• Drafting or revising the introduction
• Revising the contribution paragraph
• Distinguishing contribution from closest prior papers
• Checking self-citations for anonymization
• Engaging live empirical or theoretical debates
• Locating marginal contribution precisely
• Pre-empting obvious rival explanations
• Speaking to a broad political-science readership

When not to use

• Writing the full literature review
• Polishing the manuscript without checking venue fit
• Claiming 'first to study' for incremental contributions

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