CPS publishes work in comparative politics — democratization & regimes, political institutions, political behavior & participation, ethnic politics & conflict, comparative political economy, and parties & elections — where the contribution is comparative in design or in the portability of the claim. The first job is to confirm the question earns a place in a comparative-politics journal, not a single-country area journal and not a general poli-sci flagship.
Cps Topic Selection is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the science-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/cps-topic-selection/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when deciding whether a research question fits Comparative Political Studies (CPS) and how to frame its comparative contribution. Tests comparative leverage and travel; it does not design the study or write the paper.
The Cps Topic Selection Claude Code skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 196,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/cps-topic-selection curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/cps-topic-selection/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/cps-topic-selection/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/cps-topic-selection/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/cps-topic-selection/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\cps-topic-selection\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/cps-topic-selection/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Cps Topic Selection is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Science & Research category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{cps-topic-selection-2026,
author = {brycewang-stanford},
title = {Cps Topic Selection [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/cps-topic-selection/}
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