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Publication Date: 2008-Oct
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Issue Definition in Rights-Based Policy Focused on the Experiences of Individuals with Disabilities: An Examination of Canadian Parliamentary Discourse
Baker, Dana Lee
Disability & Society, v23 n6 p571-583 Oct 2008
In issue definition in rights-based policy Canada stereotypically embraces a more positive, human rights-centered approach as compared with the American stereotype associated with the USA's more presumptively negative, civil rights-based tack. Since exclusionary infrastructures violate the core values of democratic governance, a failure to address unnecessarily exclusive infrastructures presents a rights-based public challenge surrounding disability akin to those experienced by other non-elite groups. Analysis of disability policy serves to clarify positive versus negative tendencies in rights-based policy, including whether the expectation of a primarily positive basis in Canada is confirmed. This article examines the definition of public dimensions of the experiences of individuals with autism as a case reflecting the basis of construction of rights in Canada. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Autism, Disabilities, Governance, Foreign Countries, Civil Rights Legislation, Policy Analysis, Accessibility (for Disabled), Political Attitudes, Definitions, Discourse Analysis, Politics of Education, Social Values, Attitudes toward Disabilities
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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