Progressivity of the personal income tax schedule, including top marginal rates, bracket spread, and targeted credits (EITC-equivalents).
General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
Raised the national consumption tax from 3% to 5% on 1 April 1997 under legislation passed in 1994 with implementation scheduled for 1997. Combined with scheduled end of special income-tax cut and higher social-insurance premiums, the April 1997 fiscal drag was ~¥9tn. Widely cited as the single trigger tipping Japan back into recession alongside the Asian financial crisis; household consumption dropped 5% q/q in Q2 1997. Became canonical example of pro-cyclical fiscal tightening in balance- sheet-recession conditions.
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.