Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
Independence of the judiciary from executive and legislative encroachment. Specifically captures court-packing, selective prosecution, judicial reshuffles.
Jatiya Sangsad passed the Digital Security Act on 19 September 2018 (assented 8 October 2018), superseding the narrower ICT Act §57. Criminalised a wide range of online speech (defamation, "hurting religious sentiment", "spreading propaganda against the Liberation War") with non-bailable offences and ten-plus-year sentences. Thousands of cases filed 2018-2023, including against journalists and opposition figures. Replaced by Cyber Security Act 2023.
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.