Disability Policies and Protests in Israel

Disability protests: contentious politics, 1970-1999

Changing Disability Policies in Britain

Introduction The reforms in social policy associated with the establishment of the welfare state in Britain during the 1940s contained a number of initiatives designed to improve the lives of disabled people. However, the lack of meaningful progress towards social inclusion was highlighted, particularly from the 1970s, by an increasing number of campaigns by newly organised groups of disabled p...

Protests and Reputation Warwick Economic Research Papers Protests and Reputation *

Protests take place for a variety of reasons. In this paper we focus on protests that have a well defined objective, that is in conflict with the objectives of the government. Hence the success or failure of a protest movement depends crucially on how the government responds. We assume that government types are private information so that governments have an interest in building a reputation to...

Divergent Discourse Between Protests and Counter-Protests: #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter

Since the shooting of Black teenager Michael Brown by White police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, the protest hashtag #BlackLivesMatter has amplified critiques of extrajudicial killings of Black Americans. In response to #BlackLivesMatter, other Twitter users have adopted #AllLivesMatter, a counter-protest hashtag whose content argues that equal attention should be given to all li...

Intellectual Disability and Dental Services: Experience from Israel

INTRODUCTION People with intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) have often been neglected by the dental profession, because of a variety of barriers, like insufficient professional knowledge and experience to treat this population, lack of cooperation by the person with IDD, lack of awareness by carers, inadequate facilities, and inadequate compensation for treating this population, wh...