Ease of hiring/firing, collective-bargaining scope, minimum wage rigidity, temporary/permanent contract regulation.
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.
Product-market regulation, entry barriers, licensing burdens, network-industry regulation, price controls.
De jure and de facto independence of the central bank from fiscal authority. Per D.1.5 scope, one of the framework's defensible monetary positions.
Despite Socialist control of government, the Jospin Plural Left coalition (1997-2002) privatised more state assets in value terms than any previous administration: Thomson Multimedia, France Télécom (partial floats from 1997), Aerospatiale-Matra (merged into EADS, 2000), Crédit Lyonnais (1999), and Air France stakes. Operations proceeded under finance-ministry decrees and parliamentary authorisation under the 1986 privatisation framework. The intended effect was fiscal proceeds, capital-market deepening, and European industrial consolidation — within a coalition formally committed to social objectives.
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.