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.
On 30 September 2019 President Martín Vizcarra invoked Article 134 of the 1993 Constitution to dissolve the Fuerza-Popular-dominated Congress, citing a de-facto denial of a cuestión de confianza tied to reform of the Constitutional Tribunal appointment process. Congress simultaneously attempted to suspend Vizcarra and swore in Vice-President Mercedes Aráoz as interim president — a standoff that collapsed within 24 hours as security forces recognised Vizcarra, Aráoz resigned, and the Constitutional Tribunal (Expediente 0006-2019-CC, January 2020) upheld the dissolution as constitutional. Snap elections were held 26 January 2020 producing a fragmented nine-party Congress. Contested constitutional-institutional act: coded as mixed on rule-of-law (lawful use of a contested mechanism to break gridlock vs. aggressive executive assertion) and positive on judicial independence (enabled Constitutional Tribunal appointment reform).
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.