General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
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.
Security of private property rights — formal recognition, expropriation risk, titling systems.
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.
After eurozone entry on 1 January 2001 reduced sovereign borrowing costs to near-Bund levels, successive Greek governments expanded primary expenditure, public-sector hiring, and pension generosity well above trend revenue, running primary deficits despite Stability and Growth Pact targets. The Athens 2004 Olympics budget overruns and recurring Eurostat deficit revisions exemplified the period of accommodative fiscal policy that culminated in the 2009–2010 crisis.
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.