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.
Burkina Faso's national consultations amended the transition charter in May 2024 to extend the military-led transition for five additional years from July 2024 and allow Captain Ibrahim Traore to contest any eventual presidential election. The measure kept the Patriotic Movement for Safeguard and Restoration in control of executive transition institutions while framing the extension around security and territorial recovery.
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.
The coding captures formal political-institutional effects of the charter extension, not the security rationale offered by transition authorities.