Disabled Rights: American Disability Policy and the Fight for Equality
Disabled Rights: American Disability Policy and the Fight for Equality
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残疾人权利：美国残疾人政策和争取平等的斗争
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10.1016/j.soscij.2004.04.019
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2004
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R. Scotch
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按照最常用的衡量标准，美国有超过 5000 万残疾人，使他们成为当今美国最大的少数群体，超过了非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人或 65 岁以上人口的数量。美国残疾人遍布整个人口，因此大多数美国人都有朋友、家人或同事患有某种身体或精神障碍。尽管许多人可能不熟悉残疾人福利计划的细节和问题，但大多数残疾人所面临的克服获取障碍的问题直观上是显而易见的，即使人们不会立即认为它们代表了公共政策应解决的歧视。然而，尽管三十年来围绕残疾人权利进行了激烈且几乎持续的公共政策辩论，一场新的、相当独特的残疾人积极分子政治运动的兴起，以及残疾作为选举政治中的一个问题的出现，但人们对残疾人的关注却很少。 （哈兰·哈恩、大卫·菲佛和斯蒂芬·珀西的著作是这种普遍忽视的明显例外，尽管哈恩和菲佛关于残疾的大多数著作都是在政治科学场所之外出版的。）
By most commonly used measures, there are more than 50 million Americans with disabilities, making them the largest minority group in the United States today, exceeding the number of African Americans, Hispanic Americans, or people over the age of 65. Americans with disabilities are spread across the population, so most Americans have a friend, family member, or coworker with some kind of physical or mental impairment. And while many people may not be familiar with the details and problems of disability benefit programs, the problems of overcoming barriers to access faced by most people with disabilities are intuitively clear, even if one does not immediately consider them to represent discrimination that should be addressed by public policy.However, despite an acrimonious and nearly continuous public policy debate about the rights of people with disabilities for three decades, the rise of a new and quite distinct political movement of disabled activists, and the emergence of disability as an issue in electoral politics, scant attention been paid in political science or social science generally to disability policy, disability politics, or disability rights.(The work of Harlan Hahn, David Pfeiffer, and Stephen Percy are notable exceptions to this general neglect, although most work on disability by Hahn and Pfeiffer has been published outside of political science venues.)