EUROPE: Past offers lessons in politics of austerity

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  • Political strategies
  • Early warning
  • Securing political agreement
  • Imposing discipline
  • Aligning key leaders
  • Tactics
  • Parliamentary tools
  • Working with experts
  • Changing sub-national government funding
  • Frontloading
  • Managing expectations
  • Exaggerating the problem
  • Flying the flag
  • Showing solidarity
  • Designating scapegoats

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