Independence of the judiciary from executive and legislative encroachment. Specifically captures court-packing, selective prosecution, judicial reshuffles.
Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
On 9 Mar 2018 President Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga announced a public reconciliation ("the handshake") ending post-election street protests and establishing the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) taskforce to address ethnic antagonism, divisive elections, and inclusion. The BBI Constitutional Amendment Bill (launched 2020, formally introduced Mar 2021) proposed expanding the executive (prime minister, two deputies), enlarging parliament, and increasing county revenue share to 35%. The bill was ruled unconstitutional by the High Court on 13 May 2021 (basic-structure doctrine) and upheld by the Court of Appeal (Aug 2021) and Supreme Court (Mar 2022), a landmark judicial check on executive-led constitutional change.
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.