The New Political Economy of Disability : Transnational Networks and Individualised Funding in the Age of Neoliberalism (Paperback)

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’. Conclusion.