Size of cash and near-cash transfer programmes (unemployment benefits, means-tested assistance, universal child benefits). Architecturally distinct from forced-saving schemes — see condition welfare_architecture.
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.
General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
Promulgated 5 October 1988 by Constituent Assembly led by Ulysses Guimarães. "Citizen Constitution" — universalised rights framework: SUS Sistema Único de Saúde (Art. 196), mandatory social-security indexation (Art. 201), minimum pension ≥ minimum wage, earmarked health/education shares of federal revenue (Art. 212 at least 18%; EC 29/2000 extended health), Ministério Público autonomy (Art. 127), strong public-sector employment protections. Structural fiscal rigidity time-bomb paired with landmark civil-rights expansion.
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.