Case Studies

Making Institutions Visible — Budget–Outcome Tension in Ontario Education (ITI–gITI–IDI)

This case demonstrates how institutional budget expectations, realized outcomes, and their divergence can be mapped using the ITI–gITI–IDI framework, providing a visibility-first representation of educational funding tension without evaluative judgment.  

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 Canada’s International Student English-Testing Pathway — Dynamic Z-ITI/ZIDI Case Study

This case applies the Dynamic Z-ITI/ZIDI model to a completed administrative pathway, mapping how tension propagates through rule-defined testing, verification, and admissibility interfaces without prediction, attribution, or normative evaluation.

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Credential Downgrading as Fiscal Boundary Work — A Case Study of the 2025 U.S. “Professional Degree” Reclassification (X–Y Mapping)
This case maps a completed U.S. classification change as a boundary event within the X–Y fiscal plane, tracing how rule-defined categories re-route recognition, eligibility signals, and post-tax capacity pathways without prediction or normative evaluation.

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2008 Financial Crisis — Fiscal Event Geometry

This case applies Fiscal Geometry to a completed historical event as a methodological stress test.
It demonstrates how rule-triggered fiscal events can be mapped geometrically without prediction, attribution, or normative evaluation.

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Measuring Educational Friction in Ontario — A Fiscal Geometry Case Study

This case applies the dual-tension fiscal geometry framework to Ontario’s education funding and governance system, mapping rule-triggered funding flows and administrative interfaces to identify observable friction patterns without prediction or normative evaluation.

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1986 Higher Education Act Reauthorization — Fiscal Event Geometry

This case applies Fiscal Geometry to a completed institutional event in U.S. higher education finance.
It maps the 1986 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act as a rule-triggered geometric pivot, tracing how grant-based public support and loan-based household obligations were re-routed within Title IV statutory architecture.
The analysis focuses on rule boundaries, rule-capital events, pathway rotation, and density shifts—without prediction, attribution, or normative evaluation.

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