Policy Legitimacy: A Model for Disability Policy Analysis and Change
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Keywords
policy, legitimacy, values
Abstract
In this paper we present and apply Legitimacy Policy, a framework for policy analysis that applies a legitimacy lens to the examination, understanding, and illumination of directions for purposive policy change. Interrogating historical and current disability policy: (a) reveals the context-based value-foundations and continued dominance of medical explanations of disability inherent in disability-specific policy and (b) maps a direction for policy change that can advance human rights for disabled citizens.
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Elizabeth DePoy, Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies, Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, University of Maine
Elizabeth DePoy, PhD.is a professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies at the University of Maine.
Stephen Gilson, Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies, Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, University of Maine
Stephen Gilson, PhD., is a professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies at the University of Maine.