Independence of the judiciary from executive and legislative encroachment. Specifically captures court-packing, selective prosecution, judicial reshuffles.
Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
Plurinational Constitutional Tribunal ruling of November 28, 2017 declaring that term-limit provisions in the 2009 Constitution and Electoral Regime Law were inapplicable to Evo Morales because they violated his political rights under the American Convention on Human Rights Article 23. The ruling effectively overturned the February 2016 referendum result and cleared Morales to run for a fourth consecutive term in 2019. Widely criticised by Venice Commission and IACHR jurisprudence (subsequent 2021 opinion OC-28/21 rejected the human-rights framing of term limits).
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.