The New Political Economy of Disability

This book addresses the ways in which individualised, market-based models of disability support provision have been mobilised in and across different countries through cross-national investigation of individualised funding (IF) as an object of neoliberal policy mobility.

Autorentext

Georgia van Toorn is a political sociologist whose principal interests are in social policy and welfare research, and the political economy of disability and care work. Her research program comprises a series of projects that investigate the politics of social policy reform, the organisation and delivery of social care, and care work in publicly funded social services in which market-oriented principles, processes, vocabularies and mechanisms have been adopted, both in Australia and internationally. Georgia is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney, on a study of the history and impacts of Australian sociology.

Inhalt

Introduction. 1. Individualised funding: history, theory, practice. 2. Disability politics and the origins of Individualised Funding. 3. From Thatcherism to New Labour: Individualised Funding in an age of 'deep' neoliberalisation. 4. Self-direct Support: A New Direction for Scottish Social Care? 5. Transnational advocacy and neoliberal entanglements: Individualised Funding in post-GFC Scotland. 6. New policy, same paradigm: Australia's experiment in Individualised Funding. 7. Individualised Funding and the changing political economy of Australia's 'disability marketplace'. 8. Conclusion.