The Changing Disability Policy System: Active Citizenship and Disability in Europe Volume 1 (Routledge Advances in Disability Studies)

By: Rune Halvorsen and Bjørn Hvinden and Jerome Bickenbach and Delia Ferri and Ana Marta Guillén Rodriguez and Eva Kartchava

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Synopsis: Being an ‘active citizen’ involves exercising social rights and duties, enjoying choice and autonomy, and participating in political decision-making processes which are of importance for one’s life. Amid the new challenges facing contemporary welfare states, debate over just how ‘active’ citizens can and ought to be has redoubled. Presenting research from the first major comparative and cross-national study of active citizenship and disability in Europe, this book analyses the consequences of ongoing changes in Europe – what opportunities do persons with disabilities have to exercise Active Citizenship? The Changing Disability Policy System: Active Citizenship and Disability in Europe Volume 1 approaches the conditions for Active Citizenship from a macro perspective in order to capture the impact of the overall disability policy system. This system takes diverse and changing forms in the nine European countries under study. Central to the analysis are issues of coherence and coordination between three subsystems of the disability policy system, and between levels of governance. This book identifies the implications and policy lessons of the findings for future disability policy in Europe and beyond. It will appeal to policymakers and policy officials, as well as to researchers and students of disability studies, comparative social policy, international disability law and qualitative research methods.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781317227496
Related ISBNs:: 9781315623931, 9781138652880, 9781138652880
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 02/18/20
Copyrighted By:: Rune Halvorsen, Bjørn Hvinden, Jerome Bickenbach, Delia Ferri, Ana Marta Guillén Rodriguez, Eva Kartchava
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
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Categories:: Nonfiction, Health, Mind and Body, Social Studies, Medicine
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Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Rune Halvorsen
Edited by:: Bjørn Hvinden
Edited by:: Jerome Bickenbach
Edited by:: Delia Ferri
Edited by:: Ana Marta Guillén Rodriguez