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.
Pflegeversicherungsgesetz 26 May 1994, effective 1 January 1995 (cash benefits) and 1 April 1995/1 July 1996 (in-kind). Created the fifth social-insurance pillar (after health, pension, unemployment, accident). Contribution initially 1% of wages; employer share offset by abolition of one statutory holiday (Buß- und Bettag except Saxony). Major Bismarckian welfare-architecture extension.
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.