Statutory and effective corporate tax rates, treatment of depreciation, and international competitiveness.
Progressivity of the personal income tax schedule, including top marginal rates, bracket spread, and targeted credits (EITC-equivalents).
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.
General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
In 2023 the Hungarian government enacted a judicial-independence reform package (Act X of 2023 amending judicial-administration statutes) designed to unlock its share of the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), which had been frozen by the Commission under the rule-of-law conditionality regulation. The reform rebalanced powers between the National Judicial Council and the Office of the National Judiciary, allowing the release of conditional pre-financing tranches that fed into the state budget and EU-co-financed transfer programmes.
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.