APSA’s Diversity and Inclusion Program Team and the Status Committee on Disability in the Profession collaborated to collect recent or forthcoming publications that focus on disability in political behavior or disabled individuals and politics. These were shared on @APSAtweets during the month of July to celebrate Disability Pride Month. Check out the collection below.
- Check out “Neurodivergence and Human Rights,” which is a special issue from @Societies_MDPI edited by Heather Smith-Cannoy, Tony Smith, and Connor B.S. Strobel. This special issue foregrounds the urgent need to close persistent rights gaps facing neurodivergent populations, particularly through a broad, intersectional lens.
- Look out for Disability in Black and White: The Racial Politics of Disability Rights in the United States from @jerkulwater.bsky.social. To be released in January 2027.
- Print Edition Forthcoming in October 2026! Stay tuned for the “Electoral Accessibility,” co-authored by Gustavo Martins Piccolo and April A. Johnson is featured in the Oxford Handbook of Electoral Integrity.
- Check out this recent article by Elizabeth Evans, “Making Political Parties Accessible for People with Disabilities: A New Research Agenda.” Published in @PoPpublicsphere.
- Now Available in @ElectoralStdies: Elizabeth Evans and Stefanie Reher recently published, “Ableist institutions and party selection processes: Exploring the political recruitment of disabled candidates.”
- How are people with disabilities represented in the German Parliament? Vivien Fabry, Michael Hunklinger, and Liza Mügge answer this in, “Representing the Unrepresented? Examining Disability Representation in the German Parliament,” published in @GermanPolJnl.
- Read Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice by Amber Knight and Joshua Miller this month in recognition of #disabilitypride. Published in 2023 by @OxUniPress.
- Check out this piece in the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, “Accessible Care: The Human Rights Case for Take-Home Injectable Opioid Agonist Treatment,” shared and co-authored by Jennifer Gagnon.