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.
Progressivity of the personal income tax schedule, including top marginal rates, bracket spread, and targeted credits (EITC-equivalents).
Ease of hiring/firing, collective-bargaining scope, minimum wage rigidity, temporary/permanent contract regulation.
Hungary's 2006 Convergence Programme, adopted by the Gyurcsány second government in September 2006 in response to a fiscal deficit of about 9% of GDP, raised the standard VAT rate from 15% to 20%, reintroduced gas and pharmaceutical co-payments, raised personal income tax brackets, and froze public-sector wages. Submitted to the European Commission as the binding adjustment path for euro convergence, the intended effect was to restore market access and lower inflation expectations after the 'Őszöd speech' political 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.