Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
Independence of the judiciary from executive and legislative encroachment. Specifically captures court-packing, selective prosecution, judicial reshuffles.
South Sudan enacted amendments to the National Security Service legal framework in 2024 while civil society and international observers warned that the law preserved broad detention and security-service powers. The statute became a central governance issue before the postponed transition election, because it affected arrest authority, political space, and civilian oversight of security agencies.
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.
The file codes the legal authority and rights concerns; it does not rely on disputed incident-level enforcement claims.