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 Time Regulations 1998, made under the European Communities Act 1972 and effective 1 October 1998, transposed the EU Working Time Directive (93/104/EC) into UK law. The regulations established a 48-hour weekly working limit (with individual opt-out), 11 hours daily rest, weekly rest periods, paid annual leave (rising to 5.6 weeks), and special protections for night workers. The intended effect was to align Britain's previously unregulated working-hours regime with EU social-policy minima, after the Blair government dropped John Major's UK opt-out from the Social Chapter via the 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam.
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.