General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
De jure and de facto independence of the central bank from fiscal authority. Per D.1.5 scope, one of the framework's defensible monetary positions.
Aznar government delivered Maastricht convergence: deficit from 6.7% (1995) to 2.6% (1997) to 1.0% (2000); public debt/GDP falling; inflation anchored via BdE; peseta fixed parity set December 1998; Spain joined euro first wave 1 January 1999. Qualifying decision taken 2 May 1998 at EU special summit.
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.