Environmental regulation stringency — emissions caps, standards, phase-out mandates, carbon pricing, renewable portfolio standards.
Size of cash and near-cash transfer programmes (unemployment benefits, means-tested assistance, universal child benefits). Architecturally distinct from forced-saving schemes — see condition welfare_architecture.
A sequence of cancellations and deferrals announced February-May 2023 by incoming PM Chris Hipkins: TVNZ-RNZ public-media merger scrapped, biofuels mandate cancelled, social insurance levy indefinitely paused, clean-car upgrade deferred, container deposit scheme cancelled, and hate-speech law narrowed. Framed as a refocus on cost-of-living ahead of the October 2023 election.
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.