Good afternoon,
I am currently working on the public transport policies and people with
disability, studied under the angle of social sciences.
Would you know researchers who work on the subject of the accessibility
of transport for people with disability with the tools of public policy
analysis (ie political science, political sociology, policy making,
decision making, mobilization sociology, collective action sociology,
new social movement...) or law, and in a more anecdotic way, with the
tools of sociology of the organizations (or organizations theory) ?
Does it already exist achieved studies (dissertations, theses, articles,
reports, books, ...) in these academic disciplines : for instance
achieved works on :
- implementation of national or international legislation at the local
level (link between primary rules and secondary rules);
- effectivity (then effectiveness) of law,
- how the national legislation enacted on this subject is apprehended by
the local actors (how the local actors took note of the legislative and
lawful device?)?
- negociation/conflict between local authorities, transport service
providers and disability organisations to obtain an accessible transport
network;
- system of action subjacent with the decision process
- the mode of management and coordination of the different actions
(urban public transport, rail regional transports, air, taxis...) :
Which is the mode of "government": centralization of the institutional
device on an only person? delegation ? multipolarity ?
- Various local actors are they interdependent? Does that induce the
need for a co-operation or a coordination (concept of regulation)? Are
commissions and a certain institutionalization of negotiation necessary
to perpetuate these relations? Is the contractualisation a relevant
tool? How does the State organize these relations? Which is its role ?
- Is the participation of the users a characteristic of the regulation
of this public action ? Is the traditional mode of representation in its
place ?
- the reasons explaining why the quite precise legislation on
accessibility of transport is bad implementing at the local level (which
are the normative, technical, economic, political, institutional and
cognitive determinants of local choices in accessibility?).
- How in a context of constraints, a few actors build and make accepting
an interpretation of the problems, then formulate an action (public
policy), and how they will make emerge and legitimate a public choice
concerning the people in situation of handicap and their access of
transport?
Moreover, does it exist studies which used these tools on a close object
(for example accessibility of housing or tourism...)?
Thanks very much for your help.
Sincerely yours,
Eric Heyrman
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Institut National de REcherche sur les Transports et leur Sécurité (INRETS)
Laboratoire Ergonomie et Sciences COgnitives pour les Transports (LESCOT)
Eric HEYRMAN
Ingénieur des travaux publics de l'Etat
25, avenue François Mitterrand
Case n°24
69675 BRON Cedex
France
Tel : 33 (0)4 72 14 24 67
Fax : 33 (0)4 72 14 24 37
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