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.
Mass movement of Pakistani lawyers and civil society mobilising for reinstatement of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and independence of judiciary. Triggered 9 March 2007 when Musharraf filed reference against Chaudhry (seeking dismissal for misconduct). 20 July 2007 Supreme Court reinstated Chaudhry. 3 November 2007 Chaudhry re-dismissed under PCO; Lawyers' Movement revived. Peak mobilisation Long March to Islamabad March 2009 under PPP government of Zardari-Gilani — 16 March 2009 PM Gilani announced Chaudhry's restoration. Established judicial independence as functioning Pakistani political norm; Chaudhry's subsequent tenure 2009-2013 included suo motu activism on NRO strike-down, Memogate, Asghar Khan case.
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.