Format:
xiii, 239 Seiten
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ISBN:
9781138652880
Series Statement:
Active citizenship and disability in Europe / edited by Rune Halvorsen, Bjørn Hvinden, Jerome Bickenbach, Delia Ferri and Ana Marta Guillén Rodriguez volume 1
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- What do we mean by Active Citizenship? -- What role does public policy play in promoting Active Citizenship? -- What factors can prevent, undermine or erode the political pursuit of Active Citizenship for persons with disabilities? -- References -- Chapter 2 Diversity and dynamics of disability policy in Europe -- How to capture the diversity of relevant public policy? -- The interactions between cash transfer, service delivery and social regulation -- Interrelated disability provisions at different levels of governance -- Public disability provision interacting with the market, family and civil society -- The disability system from the perspective of the Capability Approach -- Shifts towards austerity in disability policies in the DISCIT countries? -- Shifts towards disability policy based on social investment? -- Do policy traditions matter? Towards a typology of disability policy systems -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 3 How do we know whether changes in public policy and legislation improve the conditions for exercising Active Citizenship by persons with disabilities? -- Developing AC/CRPD indicators -- The challenge of data harmonisation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 Operational definitions of disability -- The variety of operational definitions in surveys (and censuses) -- Different operationalisations within countries -- Same operational definition: Comparing prevalence across countries -- Same operational definition: Comparing prevalence over time -- Robustness of research results -- Current operationalisations and the theoretical understanding -- Discussion: why this fluidity? -- References
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Chapter 5 Active Citizenship through community living -- Introduction -- Community living and Active Citizenship: Conceptualisation and definitions -- The living situation of people with disabilities in Europe -- Policy to support community living -- Barriers and facilitators related to policy design -- Systems to support community living -- Funding systems to support community living -- Barriers and facilitators related to funding systems -- Service systems to support community living -- Barriers and facilitators associated with service delivery systems -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6 How to enhance Active Citizenship for persons with disabilities in Europe through labour market participation -- Employment rights in Europe -- Statistical data on labour market participation -- Disability policies in Europe and the DISCIT countries -- Promoting the labour market participation of persons with disabilities -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 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 -- Introduction -- Contextual framework -- Conceptual framework -- Data and methodology -- Disability and mental health policy systems in nine European countries -- The continental conservative regimes -- The liberal welfare regimes -- The social democratic regimes -- The post-communist regimes -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 8 Enabling people with disabilities through effective accessible technology policies -- Introduction -- Accessible technology in the UN CtRPD: An overview -- Accessible technology in EU law and policy -- Accessible technology in National Law -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 9 Towards positive wealth accumulation strategies for persons with disabilities
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Introduction -- Social protection, means-tested benefits and poverty traps -- Breaking free from the traps? The value of wealth- or asset-accumulation strategies -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 10 Exercising influence at the European level -- What are political and legal opportunity structures? -- Political opportunity structures at the European level: The European Union -- Political opportunity structures at the European level: The Council of Europe -- Political opportunity structures at the European level: an overview -- Data and methods -- How are European disability organisations using political opportunity structures at the European level? -- How has the CRPD influenced European political opportunity structures? -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 11 Implementing the UN CRPD in European countries -- The relevance of the UN CRPD for national disability policies -- Transnationalism and policy convergence-analytical concepts -- Data and methods -- Involvement of organisations representing disabled persons in the implementation of the UN CRPD at the national level -- Changing disability politics at the national level-experts' assessments of the impacts of the UN CRPD -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12 The potential for, and barriers to, the exercise of Active EU Citizenship by persons with disabilities -- Introduction -- The right to free movement from a disability perspective -- Proposals for reform -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Legislation -- Case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union -- Chapter 13 The contours of the emerging disability policy in Europe -- The varying significance of the disability policy subsystems -- The varying conditions for disabled citizens' participation in decision making -- How useful is the concept 'disability policy system'?
Content:
To what extent is the disability policy system multi-layered? -- Conclusions: towards a European strategy for strengthening the Active Citizenship of persons with disabilities -- References -- Index
Note:
Literaturangaben
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781315623931
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe The changing disability policy system London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017 ISBN 9781315623931
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
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Sociology
Keywords:
Europa
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Behindertenpolitik
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Aufsatzsammlung
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