TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van Toorn,Georgia
TI  - The new political economy of disability: transnational networks and individualised funding in the age of neoliberalism 
SN  - 9781000348385
AV  - HV1568 
U1  - 362.4/048 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - People with disabilities
KW  - Services for
KW  - Finance
KW  - Government policy
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Handicapped
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services
N2  - This book addresses the ways in which individualised, market-based models of disability support provision have been mobilised in and across different countries through cross-national investigation of individualised funding (IF) as an object of neoliberal policy mobility. Combining rich theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives with extensive empirical research, the book provides a timely examination of the policy processes and mechanisms driving the spread of IF amongst countries at the forefront of disability policy reform. It is argued that IF's mobility is not attributable to neoliberalism alone but to the complex intersections between neoliberal and emancipatory agendas and to the transnational networks that have blended the two agendas in new ways in different institutional contexts. The book shows how disability rights struggles have synchronised with neoliberal agendas, which explains IF's propensity to move and mutate between different jurisdictions. Featuring first-hand accounts of the activists and advocates engaged in these struggles, the book illuminates the consequences and risks of the dangerous liaisons and political trade-offs that seemed necessary to get individualised funding on the policy agenda for disabled people. It will be of interest to all scholars and students working in disability studies, social policy, sociology and political science more generally
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003039198
UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -