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.
Act enacted 19 May 1986 by the Rajiv Gandhi government reversed the Supreme Court's Shah Bano judgment (23 Apr 1985) which had granted divorced Muslim women maintenance under Section 125 CrPC. New Act limited maintenance to the iddat period (~3 months), with subsequent responsibility on waqf boards. Widely seen as an appeasement to conservative Muslim clergy; catalysed Hindu-nationalist mobilisation through the late 1980s.
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.