De jure and de facto independence of the central bank from fiscal authority. Per D.1.5 scope, one of the framework's defensible monetary positions.
Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
Pre-election currency crisis July 1984 — reserves collapsed on capital flight; 20% devaluation required. Outgoing PM Muldoon initially refused to implement the devaluation recommended by incoming Lange government; three-day constitutional standoff resolved with devaluation and power transfer. Triggered Rogernomics reform programme. Foundational crisis for modern NZ political-economy narrative.
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.