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Politics of Empowerment: Disability Rights and the Cycle of American Policy Reform - Softcover

Pettinicchio, David

 
9781503609761: Politics of Empowerment: Disability Rights and the Cycle of American Policy Reform
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1503609766 ISBN 13: 9781503609761
Verlag: Stanford University Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Despite the progress of decades-old disability rights policy, including the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act, threats continue to undermine the wellbeing of this population. The U.S. is, thus, a policy innovator and laggard in this regard. In Politics of Empowerment, David Pettinicchio offers a historically grounded analysis of the singular case of U.S. disability policy, countering long-held views of progress that privilege public demand as its primary driver.

By the 1970s, a group of legislators and bureaucrats came to act as "political entrepreneurs." Motivated by personal and professional commitments, they were seen as experts leading a movement within the government. But as they increasingly faced obstacles to their legislative intentions, nascent disability advocacy and protest groups took the cause to the American people forming the basis of the contemporary disability rights movement. Drawing on extensive archival material, Pettinicchio redefines the relationship between grassroots advocacy and institutional politics, revealing a cycle of progress and backlash embedded in the American political system.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Pettinicchio is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto and affiliated faculty in the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.

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Verlag
Stanford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1503609766
ISBN 13 
9781503609761
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
280
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Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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