cross-national-designlisted

Designs multi-country survey experiments — case selection with a stated comparative logic, instrument localization and TRAPD translation, origin-country and composition choices for stimuli, per-country power and error management, and a pooled-versus-per-country analytical strategy with measurement-equivalence checks. Use when the user is fielding the same experiment in several countries, asks which countries to include and why, asks how to translate or adapt an instrument without breaking comparability, asks whether to pool or estimate per country, or asks how large each country sample must be. Question wording goes to survey-design, per-country CONSORT and DA-RT reporting to methods-reporting, and the study-level plan to pre-registration-writing.
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# Cross-National Comparative Designer **Related skills.** This skill composes with `hypothesis-building` (per-country predictions and estimands), `survey-design` (question wording, acquiescence, sensitivity), `conjoint-design` (origin-country stimuli, power), `methods-reporting` (per-country CONSORT, APSA/JARS/DA-RT), and `pre-registration-writing` (study-level PAP with per-country tiers). **Reference files.** `references/example-4-country-immigration.md` -- worked four-country immigration-conjoint cascade covering case-selection logic, shared attributes with origin-country calibration, the full TRAPD translation protocol, per-country SESOI/predictions, and a pooled-vs-per-country analysis table. ## Instructions ### 1. Case Selection and Theoretical Justification - **Per-Country Predictions Before Case Selection (Why -> If-Then):** Before finalizing the country set, articulate, for each candidate case, the specific pattern of results that would *support* the theoretical claim versus *disconfirm* it. Cross-national leverage comes from the contrast between predicted country-level patterns, not from running the same experiment in multiple places and describing what happens. If a case cannot be tied to a distinct, falsifiable prediction, it is decorative rather than diagnostic. See `hypothesis-building` for the Why -> If-Then funnel and estimand specification. - **Variation by Design:** Cases should be selected to vary on theoretically relevant dimensions (e.g., regime type,