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.
Seven-question national referendum called by President Lenín Moreno, approved with 64-73% yes votes. Re-imposed two-term limit on all elected offices (reversing Correa's 2015 amendment allowing indefinite re-election), restructured the Consejo de Participación Ciudadana y Control Social into a transitional council with power to re-appoint oversight authorities, barred convicted corruption offenders from politics, ended metallic mining in protected areas, and tightened sanctions for sexual crimes against minors.
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.