General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
Financial-sector regulation — banking separation, capital requirements, cross-border activity rules, derivatives oversight.
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.
On 30 September 2008 the Irish government issued the Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Scheme, a blanket two-year guarantee covering some EUR 440 billion of liabilities of six domestic banks. The Credit Institutions (Financial Support) Act 2008 placed the sovereign behind senior, dated subordinated, and asset-covered obligations, transforming private banking losses into a contingent state liability that crystallised through subsequent recapitalisations.
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.