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 Staggers Rail Act of 14 October 1980, signed by President Carter, partially deregulated the US freight-rail industry by removing collective ratemaking, allowing confidential contract rates, giving the Interstate Commerce Commission narrower authority to suspend rates, and easing line abandonment and merger procedures. The intended effect was to revive the financially distressed freight-rail industry — bankruptcy of Penn Central in 1970 had triggered the Conrail reorganisation — by allowing market-determined rates and route restructuring, while preserving oversight where carriers held market dominance. The Act capped a series of late-1970s deregulation laws (airlines 1978, trucking 1980, banks 1980).
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.