General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
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.
Progressivity of the personal income tax schedule, including top marginal rates, bracket spread, and targeted credits (EITC-equivalents).
Product-market regulation, entry barriers, licensing burdens, network-industry regulation, price controls.
Portugal signed the Treaty of Lisbon on 13 December 2007 during its EU Council Presidency, with the Sócrates government hosting the signing ceremony in the Jerónimos Monastery. The treaty amended the TEU and TFEU, strengthened the EU single market governance and qualified-majority voting, and constrained domestic fiscal/regulatory autonomy in exchange for deeper EU coordination.
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.