Understanding Disability Policy
Distributed for Policy Press at the University of Bristol
“Disability policy has changed dramatically over the last fifty years and especially so since the turn of 21st century. Roulstone and Prideaux have produced a comprehensive and accessible analysis of these changes that will prove to be an invaluable text for students, researchers and policy analysts across a range of disciplines: highly recommended.”--Colin Barnes, University of Leeds
“Roulstone and Prideaux have composed a beautiful book. It is engaging, accessible and meticulously written with a steady rhythm that invites the reader ... I have no hesitation in recommending this book. It’s easy to read, conceptually clear and logically mapped out.”
List of boxes
List of acronyms
Acknowledgements
A note on the terminology
Introduction
1. Contextualising disability welfare policy
2. Cure, care and protect: the paternalist policy heritage
3. The rhetoric and reality of community care for disable people
4. Aiming high enough? Disabled children and mainstreamed lives
5. New Labour and clauses for conditionality: activating disabled citizens
6. Supporting disabled adults: new paradigms or new paternalism?
7. Older disabled people: choices and rights in old age?
8. Getting it right for all disabled people? The impact of disability policy on structured disadvantage
9. Out of the labyrinth? The disability benefits system unpacked
10. Coalition dreams, new conditionality and disability policy
References
Index
Sociology: Individual, State and Society
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