Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
After the February 2022 attack around Guinea-Bissau's government palace, the authorities accepted an ECOWAS Stabilisation Support Mission to help protect institutions and deter further military disruption. The deployment renewed a regional security guarantee around the presidency and state institutions in a country with repeated coup attempts and military intervention in politics.
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.
The mission is coded as a security-institution policy accepted by national authorities and implemented through ECOWAS.