Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
Independence of the judiciary from executive and legislative encroachment. Specifically captures court-packing, selective prosecution, judicial reshuffles.
Four-question constitutional referendum called by President Martín Vizcarra in response to the Lava Jato / CNM audio scandals. Peruvians approved three of four questions: (1) replaced the Consejo Nacional de la Magistratura (CNM) with the Junta Nacional de Justicia (JNJ) via merit-based appointment to reform judicial and prosecutorial nominations; (2) regulated private campaign finance of political parties; (3) prohibited immediate re-election of members of Congress; and rejected (4) a bicameral-legislature restoration. The reform package was intended to rebuild institutional credibility after systemic corruption exposures. Coded as positive on institutional.rule_of_law and institutional.judicial_independence; macro-fiscal and regulatory axes untouched.
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.