Why and how do Political Actors Pursue Risky Reforms?

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Fiscal austerity and the trade-off between public investment and social spending (2009, background): “Governments can rely on various political instruments and strategies to achieve this goal, e.g., blame avoidance (Weaver 1986), obfuscation of real economic costs, or manipulating discursive frames (Vis and van Kersbergen 2007).”