Size of cash and near-cash transfer programmes (unemployment benefits, means-tested assistance, universal child benefits). Architecturally distinct from forced-saving schemes — see condition welfare_architecture.
General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
Rodzina 500+ — universal child cash-transfer programme enacted by the Szydło PiS government. Original design (2016-2019): 500 zł/month per second-and-subsequent child unconditionally, plus means-tested payment for first child below ~800 zł/person household income threshold. Expanded July 2019 to universal coverage from first child, raising programme cost to ~1.7% of GDP. Indexed to 800 zł from January 2024 under a law passed by PiS in mid-2023 ahead of the election. Largest single-programme cash-transfer expansion in post-1989 Poland; approximately 6.5m children covered in early years, rising to ~6.7m post-2019.
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.