Product-market regulation, entry barriers, licensing burdens, network-industry regulation, price controls.
Sector-specific licensing regimes, concentration / quota allocation, state-controlled entry (energy, telecoms, healthcare, banking).
Financial-sector regulation — banking separation, capital requirements, cross-border activity rules, derivatives oversight.
Direction of monetary-base expansion decisions relative to trend. Separate from fiscal.transfer_expansion even when correlated.
The Motor Carrier Act of 1980 (Pub. L. 96-296) substantially deregulated the U.S. trucking industry, easing Interstate Commerce Commission entry restrictions, expanding rate-discounting flexibility, and limiting collective rate-making by trucking-industry rate bureaus. Together with the 1980 Staggers Rail Act, it formed the core surface-transportation deregulation package of the late Carter administration, leading to lower freight rates, expanded carrier entry, and eventual sunset of the ICC in 1995.
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.