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.
Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
The Ley Especial para la Reestructuración Municipal, approved in Jun 2023 by the Nuevas Ideas supermajority and effective May 2024 after the Mar 2024 municipal elections, consolidated El Salvador's 262 municipalities into 44 larger units grouped by department and population. The reform absorbed ~200 existing mayoralties into the new consolidated structures and was framed as an efficiency measure reducing duplicated bureaucracy; critics argued it eliminated opposition strongholds and centralised territorial control under Nuevas Ideas, which won 43 of 44 new mayoralties on Mar 3 2024. The reform redirected municipal fiscal transfers (FODES) and personnel budgets toward the consolidated units.
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.