Product-market regulation, entry barriers, licensing burdens, network-industry regulation, price controls.
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.
The Amato government's 2000 personal-income-tax (IRPEF) reform reduced the number of statutory brackets and modestly cut top marginal rates, broadened the family-deduction system, and expanded refundable allowances for low-income workers. Funded by Italy's improving fiscal position post-euro qualification, the reform was framed as growth-friendly tax relief consistent with Olive Tree commitments to support middle-class incomes while maintaining the Maastricht-era deficit path.
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.