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.
Financial-sector regulation — banking separation, capital requirements, cross-border activity rules, derivatives oversight.
Ease of hiring/firing, collective-bargaining scope, minimum wage rigidity, temporary/permanent contract regulation.
The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 12 May 1933, signed by President Roosevelt as part of the First New Deal, sought to raise farm prices by paying farmers to reduce planted acreage and livestock production for seven major commodities, financed by a processing tax on first-stage food processors. After the Supreme Court struck down the processing tax in United States v. Butler (1936), the program was reconstituted under the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act 1936 and the Agricultural Adjustment Act 1938. The intended effect was to restore farm parity prices to their 1909-1914 ratio, halt rural-finance collapse, and provide political support from the agricultural states.
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.