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.
Constitution drafted by the NCPO-appointed Constitution Drafting Committee chaired by Meechai Ruchupan, approved in a referendum 7 August 2016 (61.4% yes, 55% turnout, with pro-charter campaigning restricted and junta critics detained), and promulgated 6 April 2017. Key design features engineered political continuity for the junta: (i) a 250-seat Senate entirely appointed by the NCPO for a five-year transitional period that voted jointly with the House on the choice of Prime Minister; (ii) a mixed-member apportionment (MMA) electoral system using a single ballot for both constituency and party-list seats, mathematically disadvantageous to large parties; (iii) a 20- Year National Strategy binding all future governments; (iv) expanded powers for the Constitutional Court and Election Commission including party-dissolution doctrine applied to Future Forward (2020) and Move Forward (2024); (v) PM candidates need not be MPs. After the five- year transitional Senate expired in May 2024 it was replaced by a 200-member Senate chosen through an indirect professional-category election system.
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.