ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates these organisation’ involvement in national policies that aim to ratify and, in a further step, to implement the Convention. It deals with structural aspects, namely the institutional and legal framework of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and its current status in the nine countries. The chapter focuses on these practices and styles. It explores these two questions: How are disabled people’s organisations and other disability organisations involved in CRPD ratification and implementation processes at national level, and what new activities in disability politics has the Convention stimulated? It starts by describing the relevant political opportunity structures provided by the CRPD. The chapter presents analytical approach as well as the empirical data and methods applied. It presents the findings of our analysis with regard to, first, the involvement of representative organisations in the implementation of the CRPD, and, second, the impact the CRPD has had so far on national styles of policy making.
