| Page | Produces | Status |
|---|---|---|
| [7a. Country aggregates & geometries](07a-aggre | ates-and-geometries.qmd)|Country means (S2, S3, S4, S5), FIMI version means, paired Russian–Chinese FIMI difference, country × item heatmap data, EU pooled benchmarks, S4 sample composition, country geometry layer (EPSG:3035). | |
| [7b. Construct reference card](07b-construct-re | erence.qmd)|Plain-language construct dictionary (Annex A) and Short DisInforMeter language matrix (Annex B). | |
| [7c. Headline maps and origin breakdown](07c-he | dline-maps.qmd)|F-07 overall choropleth, F-08 ranked bar, F-09 five-domain small multiples, F-10 Russian map, F-11 Chinese map, F-12 R−CH difference, F-13 country × item heatmap. | |
| [7d. Construct profiles (LT vs DE, S4 clusters) | (07d-construct-profiles.qmd)|F-14 LT/DE radar, F-15 LT/DE first-order bars, F-16 cluster radars, F-17 all-S4 radar grid. | |
| [7e. Predictor paths and civic anchors](07e-pre | ictors-and-anchors.qmd)|Country-stratified SEM, F-18 forest plot, F-19 R² lollipop, F-20 anchor heatmap, F-21 S5 verdict panel. | |
| [7f. Country snapshots](07f-country-snapshots.q | d)|F-22 … F-29 one-page country dashboards (overall bar + radar + top-3 predictor bars). | |Skelet |
| [7g. Schematics and body tables](07g-schematics | qmd)|F-01 conceptual triangle, F-02 architecture, F-03 study timeline, F-04 sample composition figure, F-05 invariance step, F-06 reliability strip, F-30 three-legs sketch, T-01 scale comparison, T-02 chain summary, T-03 priority countr | es. |Skel |
| [7h. Annex tables](07h-annex-tables.qmd) | Annexes A1–A10 of the report. | Skeleton |
7. Policy report — Overview
What this section is for
This is the preparation workspace for the public-facing DisInforMeter policy report (DeConspirator deliverable). It does not host any new psychometric models — those live in 3. Per-wave estimation and 4. Cross-study analyses. What it does host is the derivative work needed to turn validated scales into a designed report:
- Country-level aggregates (means, CIs, paired Russian/Chinese FIMI differences, item-level heatmap data) that no other Quarto page exports yet.
- A plain-language construct reference card and the Short DisInforMeter language matrix that become Annexes A and B of the report.
- Country-stratified SEM paths so each country snapshot can show its three strongest predictors of FIMI.
- EU pooled benchmarks used as the reference line across every snapshot.
-
Print-ready figures — choropleths, ranked bar charts, radar / spider profiles, forest plots, heatmaps, and country-snapshot composites — exported to
outputs/policy_report/figures/at ≥ 300 dpi PNG plus PDF for vector use.
Every output of this section is consumed by the LaTeX report build later. None of these outputs are used by the manuscript pipeline (paper/) — they are siblings, not predecessors.
Design sources
| Document | Question it answers |
|---|---|
docs/reports/2026-05-21_policy-report-content/01_policy-report-blueprint.md |
What sections does the report have, what does each argue, how long is it? |
docs/reports/2026-05-21_policy-report-content/02_figures-and-tables-spec.md |
Exactly which figures/tables, where the data lives, what each looks like. |
docs/reports/2026-05-21_policy-report-content/03_new-analyses-roadmap.md |
Which analyses still need to be computed; which CSV each script writes. |
docs/reports/2026-05-21_policy-report-content/04_existing-assets-inventory.md |
What can be reused verbatim from the repo. |
docs/reports/2026-05-21_policy-report-content/05_eu-policy-anchoring.md |
Which EU instruments the report speaks to. |
docs/reports/2026-05-21_policy-report-content/06_caveats-and-risk-register.md |
What we cannot claim, and how to communicate uncertainty. |
docs/reports/2026-05-21_policy-report-content/07_executive-summary-draft.md |
First-pass draft of the executive summary. |
The figure / table IDs used throughout the pages below (F-07, T-02, A1, …) map 1:1 to the IDs in 02_figures-and-tables-spec.md. Numbering is locked once the design phase ends — do not renumber if the order changes; cross-document references depend on stability.
Page index
Output layout
All outputs land under a single root so the LaTeX build can pick them up with one include path:
outputs/policy_report/
├── tables/ # All CSVs (one per analysis); naming matches §1–§8 of the roadmap.
├── figures/ # F-XX figures, PNG + PDF; one file per figure ID.
├── geometries/ # Cached sf object for the choropleth base layer.
└── cache/ # Long-running intermediate fits (country-stratified SEM).The single orchestration entry point is R/policy_report/00_run_all.R, which sources every analysis script in dependency order and exits non-zero on any acceptance-check failure.
Status
Every page in this section is a skeleton at the moment — section headers, code-chunk stubs (currently #| eval: false), and orienting prose are in place; the underlying helper functions in R/policy_report/ all stop() with a TODO message. The intended next sprint is to implement the helpers in roadmap order (§1 → §9) and then flip eval: false to eval: true page by page.
Warning
Do not enable execution of these pages in the main render until the helpers in R/policy_report/ are implemented — they will deliberately throw. The section is wired into _quarto.yml so the navigation works, but every analysis chunk currently sets eval: false.