Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
Independence of the judiciary from executive and legislative encroachment. Specifically captures court-packing, selective prosecution, judicial reshuffles.
South Sudan's parties signed the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan in September 2018. The agreement recreated a transitional unity government, set security arrangements, power-sharing offices, transitional justice and constitutional processes, and an election pathway intended to end the civil war and restore national institutions.
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 agreement's implementation has been slow and repeatedly extended; the coding reflects the formal peace framework.