General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
Progressivity of the personal income tax schedule, including top marginal rates, bracket spread, and targeted credits (EITC-equivalents).
Multi-year consolidation package adopted under the EU excessive-deficit procedure opened against Austria in June 2025 following a 2024 deficit of ~4.7% of GDP. Measures include staged expenditure cuts across ministries, extension of the top income-tax bracket (Spitzensteuersatz 55% for income above EUR 1m) beyond its 2025 sunset, tightened pension indexation, staffing freezes in federal administration, and subsidy- programme rationalisation (Bildungskarenz abolition, phased Klimabonus restructuring). Targets deficit under 3% of GDP by end of the legislative period.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.