General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
Progressivity of the personal income tax schedule, including top marginal rates, bracket spread, and targeted credits (EITC-equivalents).
Statutory and effective corporate tax rates, treatment of depreciation, and international competitiveness.
Trade policy openness — tariffs, non-tariff barriers, FTAs, industrial protection.
In September 2012 the Noda cabinet purchased three of the five Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands from their private Japanese owner for approximately JPY 2.05 billion, formally placing them under central government ownership. The "nationalisation" was framed by Tokyo as defensive against a Tokyo- metropolitan acquisition bid; Beijing responded with widespread anti-Japan protests, customs delays and a sustained boycott of Japanese consumer brands that materially affected bilateral trade.
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.