The same applies to spending cuts in other countries in more recent times, such as Ireland in the late 1980s, or Sweden, Canada, New Zealand and Germany in the 1990s, which
we compare in a forthcoming book When the Party's Over: The Politics of Fiscal Squeeze in Perspective.
Some of these issues are
compared across the US, EU and over thirty countries worldwide
in the
forthcoming Bloomsbury Professional
book, International Handbook of World Social Media Laws, edited by Paul Lambert.