Independence of the judiciary from executive and legislative encroachment. Specifically captures court-packing, selective prosecution, judicial reshuffles.
Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
Constitution (Twenty-Sixth Amendment) Act 2024, assented 21 October 2024. Key provisions: Chief Justice of Pakistan selection moved from seniority principle to a 12-member Special Parliamentary Committee with two-thirds-majority requirement; Constitutional Bench established within the Supreme Court to hear constitutional petitions, with members nominated by the Judicial Commission now majority non-judicial; three-year fixed term for the Chief Justice; Article 175A Judicial Commission reconstituted with increased parliamentary representation. Most significant court-related constitutional change since the 18th Amendment 2010. Passed in National Assembly 225-12 and Senate 65-4. Contested by bar associations, PTI, and several retired judges as a political intervention in judicial composition.
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.