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 of the Kingdom of Thailand B.E. 2540 (1997) promulgated 11 October 1997 — the 16th Thai constitution and widely styled "People's Constitution" as first drafted with substantial civil-society consultation (Constitution Drafting Assembly of 99 members). Established: Constitutional Court (independent constitutional review), National Counter Corruption Commission (NCCC), Election Commission of Thailand (ECT), National Human Rights Commission, Ombudsman, Official Information Commission. Added: direct-election of Senate (200 members, non-partisan), mixed-member MP system with party-list component (100 MPs), decentralisation mandate. Abrogated entirely by 2006 coup; partly restored in 2007 charter; fully superseded by 2017 charter.
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.