Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
Independence of the judiciary from executive and legislative encroachment. Specifically captures court-packing, selective prosecution, judicial reshuffles.
Right to Information Act enacted 15 June 2005, effective 12 October 2005. Created statutory right of Indian citizens to request information from public authorities (central, state, local); 30-day response mandate; Central and State Information Commissions as appellate bodies. Covered all public authorities receiving government funding including NGOs. Built on Tamil Nadu (1997) and Rajasthan (2000) state-level precursors, the Supreme Court's 1982 S.P. Gupta judgment, and Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) jan sunwai public-hearing movement from 1994. 2019 amendment weakened Information Commissioner autonomy.
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.