Active social citizenship: the case of disabled peoples' rights to personal assistance

Table 1.

Right typeActivation typeLibertarianRepublicanSocioliberalSweden Claim of rightSelf-responsibility for applying for PA
The option of choice of PA when in the target group
The option of choice of cash payments or servicesThe intention of strengthening self-determination, in particular through user cooperation, but confined by 2011 assessment system (“behovs-bedömningsstödet”)Denmark Right to be assessedThe intention of strengthening self-responsibility
Cash payments
The history of “high activity level in life style”The intention of strengthening self-determination, in particular through user cooperation, but confined by a standardized method (“funksjonsevne-metoden”)Certain duties in terms of requirement of manager- and employer-capacity in return for PANorway Right to be assessedThe intention of strengthening self-determination and user participation, in particular through user cooperation in terms of a dialogue, but confined by IPLOSDuties in terms of requirement of manager and employer capacity in return for PA