Presenting research from the first major comparative and cross-national study of active citizenship and disability in Europe, this book analyses the consequence

This book provides an international comparative study of the implementation of disability rights law and policy focused on the emerging principles of self-deter

Over the last three decades, a number of reforms have taken place in European social policy with an impact on the opportunities for persons with disabilities to

Focusing on the case of disability, this book examines what happens when previously marginalised individuals obtain the legal recognition of their equal citizen

Drawing on new empirical research with disabled people in the UK, and considering the work of theorists such as Berlin, Habermas and Mouffe, Ellison's ideas of