METHOD / WORKING MODEL
Separate the question, mechanism, evidence, and judgment.
The framework is designed to make disagreement inspectable. It does not produce a score, flatten a country into one system, or treat a theoretical mechanism as an observed outcome.
The intended argument trace
- ChallengeA recurring open question
- Attributed EndWhat a specified actor sought
- Institutional MeansRoles, rules, authority, and incentives
- Bounded caseWhat operated where, when, and for whom
- Observed outcomeA sourced result with limits
- CriterionThe disclosed lens used to assess it
CURRENT DRAFT
Explicit Criteria
Distribution
Who receives benefits, resources, authority, and adjustment costs?
- Assumption
- Concentrated advantages and involuntary burdens require explicit justification.
- Evidence needed
- Measures must distinguish income, wealth, ownership, control, access, and risk.
- Limit
- Improvement on one distribution does not establish improvement on another.
Accountability
Can affected people inspect, contest, and replace consequential decision-makers?
- Assumption
- Consequential authority should be answerable to those it affects.
- Evidence needed
- Formal powers and observed practice must both be documented.
- Limit
- Formal contestability does not establish equal practical influence.
Scale and transferability
Which contextual conditions are necessary for an observed mechanism to operate elsewhere or at another scale?
- Assumption
- No bounded case automatically supplies a universal blueprint.
- Evidence needed
- Compare population, jurisdiction, material conditions, participants, and rule levels.
- Limit
- Scale may change several mechanisms at once and cannot be reduced to population size.
MIGRATION STATUS
Complete transfer; incomplete research.
All 112 entries from the exploratory comparison are accounted for: 96 feed 72 response drafts, and 16 became historical-evidence or scale-and-transferability notes. None of the former evaluative labels entered this graph.
The next editorial step is to split these inherited summaries into independently citable claims, connect them to attributed Ends and concrete Means, and test them against bounded historical cases.