Craig Kyrle Strachan Davidson

Eighty Years of Manifesto Rigor: Applying the Universal Civic Rigor Checklist (v2) to UK General Election Manifestos, 1945–2024

This RC version presents the first complete, gap‑free audit of every UK general election manifesto produced by Labour, the Conservatives, and the Liberal/Liberal Democrat tradition from 1945 to 2024. Using the Universal Civic Rigor Checklist v2, all 68 documents were read, verifi...

Davidson Frame

The Davidson Frame—formally the Structured Information Deterministic Manifolds (SIDM) architecture—is a seven‑stage inference framework for reconstructing latent system states under noisy, irregular, and information‑constrained observation regimes. This study provides an initial...

A Unified Pathfinder Concept

This paper evaluates an uncrewed pathfinder mission architecture built by synthesizing seven prior conceptual frameworks. We ask a specific question: if the propulsion gap identified in the Phase-Managed Handover System (PMHS) and Powered Sundiver with Distributed Capture (PSDC)...