Changing Disability Policy System

Jerome Bickenbach is Permanent Visiting Professor at the Department of Health Sciences and Health Policy, University of Lucerne, Switzerland, Professor Emeritus at Queen’s University, Canada and Head of the Disability Policy Unit at Swiss Paraplegic Research (SPF), Nottwil, Switzerland. His research focuses on disability epidemiology, definition and conceptual analysis, as well as issues in disability policy and law.Delia Ferri is a Lecturer in Law at Maynooth University and member of the Maynooth Centre for European and Eurasian Studies, Ireland. She is also affiliated researcher at the Dirpolis Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy. Her research interests include EU Law, European Constitutional Law and International and Comparative Disability Law.Rune Halvorsen is Associate Professor in Social Policy in the Department of Social Work, Child Welfare and Social Policy, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway. His research focuses on comparative social policy, disability policy, social movements, social citizenship and recognition politics.Bjørn Hvinden is Professor in Sociology and Head of Research at Norwegian Social Research (NOVA), an institution at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway. His main research interests are comparative and European social policies, social citizenship, climate change and welfare, disability, poverty and youth job insecurity. Ana Marta Guillén Rodriguez is full Professor of Sociology and Head of Department at the University of Oviedo, Spain. Her research interests include comparative social and labour policy, Europeanization and European integration.

• 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 Rodriguez2. Diversity and dynamics of disability policy in Europe – an analytical framework Rune Halvorsen, Anne Waldschmidt, Bjørn Hvinden and Kjetil Klette Bøhler3. How do we know whether changes in public policy and legislation improve the conditions for exercising Active Citizenship by persons with disabilities?Jerome Bickenbach4. Operational definitions of disability – usable in comparative research on Active Citizenship?Jan Tøssebro and Bjørn Hvinden5. Active Citizenship through community living – a multi-level perspective Jan Šiška, Julie Beadle-Brown, Šárka Káňová and Jan Tøssebro6. How to enhance Active Citizenship for persons with disabilities in Europe through labour market participation – European and national perspectivesRoy Sainsbury, Edmund Coleman-Fountain, and Bruno Trezzini7. To what extent is the assistance and support provided by social services capable of enhancing Active Citizenship for persons with psychosocial disabilities? A comparative perspectiveRafael Lindqvist, Marie Sépulchre, Victoria Schuller8. Enabling people with disabilities through effective accessible technology policiesJenni Kline and Delia Ferri9. Towards positive wealth accumulation strategies for persons with disabilities: linking social protection with social inclusionSinéad Keogh, Gerard Quinn, Eilionóir Flynn and Jennifer Kline10. Exercising influence at the European level – political opportunity structures for disability rights advocacy and the impact of the UN CRPDAndreas Sturm, Anne Waldschmidt, Anemari Karačić and Timo Dins11. Implementing the UN CRPD in European countries – a comparative study on the involvement of organisations representing persons with disabilitiesAnne Waldschmidt, Andreas Sturm, Anemari Karačić and Timo Dins12. The potential for, and barriers to, the exercise of Active EU Citizenship by persons with disabilities: the right to free movementLisa Waddington 13. The contours of the emerging disability policy in Europe – revisiting the multi-level and multi-actor frameworkRune Halvorsen, Bjørn Hvinden, Jerome Bickenbach, Delia Ferri and Ana Marta Guillén Rodriguez