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Events Scored
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People + Institutions
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Principles
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Ideological Systems
The framework

How ISA sees politics.

Every event is scored across three analytical dimensions — not left vs. right, but structured measurement of how ideological systems compete for institutional control.

Ideology Scoring

Who gained ground. Who lost it.

Every political event scored against competing ideological systems — measuring shifts in institutional power, contested principles, and the structural winners and losers behind each headline.

Overton Tracking

What is now sayable.

Map how each event shifts the Overton window — the range of ideas considered politically viable — and track which actors are pushing those boundaries and which positions are no longer defensible.

Power Dynamics

The forces behind the news.

Institutional credibility, strategic battlespace analysis, and principle-collision detection — revealing how attacks land, how defenses hold, and which institutions are quietly bleeding power.

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