Université de Fribourg

Competing Institutional Logics and Paradoxical Universalism : School-to-Work Transitions of Disabled Youth in Switzerland and the United States

Tschanz, Christoph ; Powell, Justin J. W.

In: Social inclusion, 2020, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 155-167

Disablement is a complex social phenomenon in contemporary societies, reflected in disability policies oriented towards contrasting paradigms. Fraught with ambivalence, disability raises dilemmas of classification and targeted supports. Paradoxical universalism emphasizes that to achieve universality requires recognizing individual dis/abilities and particular contextual conditions and barriers...

Université de Fribourg

Disability-policy models in European welfare regimes : comparing the distribution of social protection, labour-market integration and civil rights

Tschanz, Christoph ; Staub, Ivo

In: Disability & Society, 2017, vol. 32, no. 8, p. 1199-1215

This paper examines different models of disability policy in European welfare regimes on the basis of secondary data. OECD data measuring social protection and labour- market integration is complemented with an index which measures the outcomes of disability civil rights. Eurobarometer data is used to construct the index. The country modelling by cluster analysis indicates that an...