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.
Military coup on 22 May 2014 by the Royal Thai Armed Forces led by Army Chief Prayut Chan-o-cha overthrew the caretaker Yingluck Shinawatra government. The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) suspended the 2007 constitution, dissolved the Senate, imposed martial law, and promulgated a 2014 interim constitution whose Section 44 granted the NCPO Head absolute power to issue binding orders. NCPO appointed a National Legislative Assembly, a Constitution Drafting Committee, and a National Reform Council. Civilian political activity, public gatherings of more than five people, and media criticism were restricted under NCPO orders. The junta period ran until the 2019 general election held under the new 2017 constitution.
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.