The Changing Disability Policy System Active Citizenship and Disability in Europe Volume 1

1. Introduction: is public policy in Europe promoting the Active Citizenship of persons with disabilities?

Bjørn Hvinden, Rune Halvorsen, Jerome Bickenbach, Delia Ferri and Ana Marta Guillén Rodriguez

2. Diversity and dynamics of disability policy in Europe - an analytical framework

Rune Halvorsen, Anne Waldschmidt, Bjørn Hvinden and Kjetil Klette Bøhler

3. How do we know whether changes in public policy and legislation improve the conditions for exercising Active Citizenship by persons with disabilities?

Jerome Bickenbach

4. Operational definitions of disability - usable in comparative research on Active Citizenship?

Jan Tøssebro and Bjørn Hvinden

5. Active Citizenship through community living - a multi-level perspective

Jan Siska, Julie Beadle-Brown, Sárka Kánová and Jan Tøssebro

6. How to enhance Active Citizenship for persons with disabilities in Europe through labour market participation - European and national perspectives

Roy Sainsbury, Edmund Coleman-Fountain, and Bruno Trezzini

7. To what extent is the assistance and support provided by social services capable of enhancing Active Citizenship for persons with psychosocial disabilities? A comparative perspective

Rafael Lindqvist, Marie Sépulchre, Victoria Schuller

8. Enabling people with disabilities through effective accessible technology policies

Jenni Kline and Delia Ferri

9. Towards positive wealth accumulation strategies for persons with disabilities: linking social protection with social inclusion

Sinéad Keogh, Gerard Quinn, Eilionóir Flynn and Jennifer Kline

10. Exercising influence at the European level - political opportunity structures for disability rights advocacy and the impact of the UN CRPD

Andreas Sturm, Anne Waldschmidt, Anemari Karacic and Timo Dins

11. Implementing the UN CRPD in European countries - a comparative study on the involvement of organisations representing persons with disabilities

Anne Waldschmidt, Andreas Sturm, Anemari Karacic and Timo Dins

12. The potential for, and barriers to, the exercise of Active EU Citizenship by persons with disabilities: the right to free movement

Lisa Waddington

13. The contours of the emerging disability policy in Europe - revisiting the multi-level and multi-actor framework

Rune Halvorsen, Bjørn Hvinden, Jerome Bickenbach, Delia Ferri and Ana Marta Guillén Rodriguez