Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
Immigration policy openness — work visas, family reunification, asylum processing, border enforcement posture.
Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) mass rally 25 November 2007 in Kuala Lumpur, estimated ~30,000-50,000 ethnic-Indian participants (one of largest Malaysian street protests in 20 years). Grievance: economic and political marginalisation of Indian Malaysians (7% of population) under NEP framework, temple demolitions, indentured-labour plantation legacy. Police responded with tear gas and water cannons; 5 leaders arrested under Internal Security Act (ISA) December 2007 and detained without trial. ISA detentions contributed to March 2008 electoral swing. ISA detentions released under Najib in April-May 2009 as part of his initial reform gesture. ISA itself repealed 2012, replaced by SOSMA.
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.