Financial-sector regulation — banking separation, capital requirements, cross-border activity rules, derivatives oversight.
General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
Independence of the judiciary from executive and legislative encroachment. Specifically captures court-packing, selective prosecution, judicial reshuffles.
Belgian state acquisition of 49.93% of Fortis Bank Belgium on 28 September 2008 (~€4.7bn), followed by full acquisition of the Belgian banking operations on 5 October 2008 and transfer of 75% to BNP Paribas in exchange for BNP Paribas shares (completing May 2009 after Brussels Court of Appeal reversal and shareholder-vote sequence). Combined Belgian state commitments in Fortis dossier ~€13.5bn plus contingent guarantees. The 'Fortis-gate' episode — apparent executive pressure on the Brussels Court of Appeal — triggered PM Leterme's first resignation in December 2008.
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.