Progressivity of the personal income tax schedule, including top marginal rates, bracket spread, and targeted credits (EITC-equivalents).
Statutory and effective corporate tax rates, treatment of depreciation, and international competitiveness.
General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
Immigration policy openness — work visas, family reunification, asylum processing, border enforcement posture.
The "Copernic" reform launched in 2000 by the Verhofstadt I government under Minister Luc van den Bossche restructured the Belgian federal civil service: ministries were reorganised into Federal Public Services (FPS) and Programmatory Public Services (PPS), management mandates replaced permanent secretary-general posts, and HR practices were modernised. The aim was to professionalise delivery, depoliticise senior appointments, and improve citizen-facing services.
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.