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eursr-literature-positioning

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Use when positioning a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript against the literature so it reads as a contribution to a comparative, theory-driven quantitative debate rather than a national note. Stakes the contribution in a European sociological debate and names the closest prior estimates; it does not write the literature review.

When to use

• Drafting or revising the introduction and contribution statement
• Addressing reviewer feedback about missing European literature
• Connecting national citations to the cross-national frontier
• Distinguishing contribution from closest prior estimates
• Framing a live theoretical disagreement
• Engaging the comparative frontier with harmonized-data studies
• Naming the gap precisely in terms of contested or under-theorized issues
• Positioning the contribution as a move against a rival account

When not to use

• Writing the literature review

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