De jure and de facto independence of the central bank from fiscal authority. Per D.1.5 scope, one of the framework's defensible monetary positions.
Ease of hiring/firing, collective-bargaining scope, minimum wage rigidity, temporary/permanent contract regulation.
Size of cash and near-cash transfer programmes (unemployment benefits, means-tested assistance, universal child benefits). Architecturally distinct from forced-saving schemes — see condition welfare_architecture.
General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
The Working Families' Tax Credit (introduced October 1999, replacing Family Credit) and Children's Tax Credit (introduced April 2001), and the unified Child Tax Credit / Working Tax Credit framework under the Tax Credits Act 2002 — implemented from April 2003 — together built the New Labour in-work support architecture. Refundable through HMRC, with means-tested taper and child-element components. The intended effect was to "make work pay" at the bottom of the earnings distribution, raise lone-parent labour-force participation, and progress toward the March 1999 Blair commitment to abolish child poverty within a generation.
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.