General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
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.
Stylised-fact entry capturing debt accumulation under the 1976-1983 DC-led governments. Debt/GDP rose from ~55% (1976) to ~70% (1983) under chronic primary deficits, public-sector wage and pension expansion, scala-mobile-driven inflation-spending interaction, and high real interest costs post-divorzio 1981. Set trajectory that culminated in >100% by 1992 under Craxi and post-Craxi coalitions.
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.