Government Effectiveness - Governance score_

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1. ··1928Capitulations abolishedCorrelationExpected causation

   Iran unilaterally ends the 19th-century capitulations regime under which foreign nationals held extraterritorial legal immunity from Iranian courts, asserting full Iranian judicial sovereignty over foreign nationals.

   Why this link: Ending extraterritorial legal immunity for foreign nationals was a foundational assertion of judicial sovereignty, part of the broader legal-modernization program later loosely reflected in rule-of-law governance scoring.

   Caveat: No continuous rule-of-law measure exists for the intervening seven decades (WGI data begins only in 1996); link is illustrative context only.

   Lag: Not measurableSource: Encyclopaedia Iranica (Commerce vii. In the Pahlavi and post-Pahlavi periods)
2. ··1979Bonyad Mostazafan founded from confiscated Pahlavi assetsCorrelationExpected causation

   Ayatollah Khomeini decrees the creation of the Bonyad-e Mostazafan (Foundation of the Oppressed), successor to the Pahlavi Foundation, to administer assets confiscated from the former royal family and dozens of associates of the old regime; within a decade its holdings reportedly exceed $20bn across roughly 140 factories, 470 agribusinesses, 100 construction firms, 64 mines and 250 commercial companies, becoming one of several bonyad conglomerates operating outside normal budgetary and tax oversight.

   Why this link: A large share of the economy sitting under bonyad control outside normal state administration and budget processes weighs on measured government effectiveness.

   Caveat: Government effectiveness scores reflect many institutional factors; the bonyad system's specific contribution cannot be isolated from the rest of Iran's public administration.

   Lag: Multi-decade, structuralSource: Wikipedia -- Mostazafan Foundation (cross-checked against Wikipedia's Bonyad overview article)