ITI–gITI–IDI Measurement Architecture

Measuring when observable institutional condition and relational carrying capacity stop moving together

The ITI–gITI–IDI framework separates two independently generated readings of institutional condition.

ITI measures quantitatively observable tension. gITI reconstructs relational and topological tension from documented institutional dependencies. IDI measures the divergence between the two only after both are independently generated and aligned.

ITI Institutional Tension Index

gITI Geometric Institutional Tension Index

IDI Institutional Distortion Index

First Empirical Application — Lehman Brothers

Under the principal specification, the ordering reverses between 2008Q1 and 2008Q2. The stronger robustness finding is directional separation rather than a universal crossover threshold.