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.
Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act 2010, passed by National Assembly 8 April 2010 and Senate 15 April 2010, assented 19 April 2010. Most consequential post-Musharraf civilian-transition reform. Key provisions: (1) abolition of the Concurrent Legislative List — 47 subjects devolved from federation to provinces including health, education, environment, local government, social welfare; (2) repeal of Article 58(2)(b) — presidential power to dissolve the National Assembly abolished; (3) renaming of North-West Frontier Province to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; (4) appointment of superior-court judges through Judicial Commission and parliamentary committee rather than presidential discretion; (5) strengthened parliamentary role in caretaker-government appointment; (6) Fair Trial Rights under Article 10A. Restored 1973 constitution's parliamentary character after distortions by Zia's 8th Amendment and Musharraf's 17th Amendment / LFO.
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.