Research & Analysis
Measuring public resources: a framework for long-run comparison
How ContextLens normalises budgets, staffing and physical assets across seventy years of changing definitions.
Why this is a draft
This paper is shared so specialists can challenge the normalisation rules before they are used more widely. Findings may change substantially. Status: Draft for comment, v0.3.
It does not produce a single governance score. It sets out how inputs (money, people, physical stock) can be made comparable when definitions shift.
Version history
- v0.3 · 5 Sep 2026 · Draft for comment.