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.
Hours before a scheduled third impeachment vote, President Pedro Castillo delivered a televised address ordering the dissolution of Congress, establishment of an "exceptional government of national emergency," reorganisation of the judiciary and Fiscalía de la Nación, and imposition of a nationwide curfew. Security forces refused to comply, the cabinet resigned en masse, the Fiscalía opened a rebellion investigation, and Congress voted 101-6 to remove Castillo under Article 113's "permanent moral incapacity" clause the same afternoon. Castillo was detained while attempting to reach the Mexican embassy and placed in pre-trial detention. Vice-President Dina Boluarte was sworn in. Coded strongly negative on institutional.rule_of_law and institutional.judicial_independence as an extra-constitutional attempt to override separation of powers.
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.