Abstract
Political scientists are relative newcomers to study of disability policies and their impacts. Only in last decade have political scientists joined other social scientists in disciplines of psychology (e.g., Vash 1981; McDaniels 1976), sociology (e.g., Albrecht 1976) and economics (e.g., Berkowitz Johnson and Murphy 1976; Levitan and Taggart 1977) in studying policies intended to aid persons with mental and physical disabilities, what Driedger (1989) has termed the last civil rights movement. Hahn (1985: 87) contends that relatively new attention given by political scientists to study of disability policy results from a perceptual shift in orientations to disability:
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