General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
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.
Financial-sector regulation — banking separation, capital requirements, cross-border activity rules, derivatives oversight.
Environmental regulation stringency — emissions caps, standards, phase-out mandates, carbon pricing, renewable portfolio standards.
Title X of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Pub. L. 111-203) created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent regulator housed within the Federal Reserve System with rule-making, supervisory, and enforcement authority over consumer financial products including mortgages, credit cards, payday lending, and student loans. Funded directly from Fed earnings rather than congressional appropriations, the CFPB consolidated consumer-protection powers previously dispersed across seven federal agencies.
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.