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jpam-literature-positioning

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Use when positioning a Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) manuscript against prior work — the policy-evaluation evidence base, the relevant economics / political-science / public-management literatures, and the policy/program record. Frames the gap and contribution; it does not design the study or write the full review.

When to use

• Drafting or revising the introduction and related-work framing
• Addressing reviewer comments that the contribution is incremental
• Reconciling conflicting prior estimates of the same policy's effect
• Bridging an economics and a political-science or public-management literature
• Mapping the policy-evidence base
• Stating the gap as a decision gap
• Distinguishing from the program-evaluation gray literature

When not to use

• Designing the study
• Writing the full review

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