Institutional ontology concerns what exists before doctrine, data, or method are applied.
It specifies the structural elements that make institutional action intelligible as a legal, fiscal, or administrative phenomenon, prior to interpretation or measurement.
Institutional tension in Fiscal Geometry is a structural property of normative space;
its visibility is grounded in ontology, its computability is conditioned by data stability, but its existence is independent of measurement.
This page defines the pre-analytical layer and routes readers to its formal instantiations.
Working paper: Before Doctrine and Data: Institutional Ontology as a Pre-Analytical Discipline in Law — SSRN