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.
Proclamation 652/2009 defined terrorism and material support broadly enough to capture journalism, peaceful protest, and opposition political activity, and permitted pre-trial detention of up to four months. Used extensively against CUD, Oromo, and later Muslim-protest activists; criticised by UN Special Rapporteurs and Human Rights Watch as a post-2005 consolidation instrument.
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.