- label
- Cross-Border Playbook Export
- category
- Structural
- code
- TC-33
- definition
- The documented or structurally evidenced transfer of civic space restriction tactics, legislative templates, or institutional models from one country to another. Functions as a Stage 6 structural enabler because it provides the receiving regime with a pre-validated legislative architecture, a tested justification narrative, and political cover from the fact that other countries have already done the same. Four confidence levels: (1) Explicit citation — receiving country officials publicly name the source country as their model; (2) Acknowledged adaptation — legislative text substantially mirrors source law without explicit citation; (3) Diplomatic transmission — transfer through documented state-to-state or party-to-party bilateral relationships; (4) Structural parallel — near-identical legislative architecture inferred from sequencing, political relationships, and narrative consistency without documented citation.
- detection signal
- Official citation of foreign model in legislative debate or authorization speech; legislative text with >70% structural similarity to documented source-country law; bilateral state or party agreement explicitly covering civic space governance; near-identical phase sequencing across two countries within 24 months of documented contact
- instrument type
- Structural
- needs review
- false
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