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.
Three-month "War on Drugs" campaign February-April 2003 declared by PM Thaksin targeting methamphetamine trafficking. Official casualty count: ~2,500 deaths in first three months attributed to drug dealers in gang rivalries or police encounters; Human Rights Watch and subsequent 2007 Kamnuan Committee investigation concluded majority were extrajudicial killings including many not on any drug-blacklist. Paired with "shoot-to-kill" rhetoric and no-tolerance policing. Bodies often dumped to obscure responsibility. No police convictions during Thaksin term. Repeated in later anti-drug campaigns 2004-2005. Canonical Thaksin-era rule-of-law regression event.
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.