Vanhala, L;
(2015)
The Diffusion of Disability Rights in Europe.
Human Rights Quarterly
, 37
(4)
pp. 831-853.
10.1353/hrq.2015.0058.
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Abstract
This article examines the spread of disability rights across European countries. Existing theoretical explanations of rights diffusion are unable to account for the pattern of adoption of disability equality norms across Europe over the last twenty years. The article argues top-down explanations need to be complemented by agent-centered approaches to convincingly account for the case of disability rights in Europe. Engagement with social movement theory that takes domestic activists and the meanings they attribute to rights seriously offers a better understanding of how and why we might see the rise of rights in one case and their rejection in another.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Diffusion of Disability Rights in Europe |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1353/hrq.2015.0058 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2015.0058 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2015 Johns Hopkins University Press. This article first appeared in Human Rights Quarterly 37:4 (2015), 831-853. Reprinted with permission by Johns Hopkins University Press. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1478383 |
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