This paper provides the first systematic cross-national assessment of disabled people's electoral and political participation, based on research in the 28 Member States of the European Union and in the context of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. A mixed methods approach included policy analysis, information requests to national experts and secondary analysis of European survey data. The evidence populated indicators which suggest four lines of action: (a) lifting legal and administrative barriers; (b) raising awareness; (c) making political participation more accessible; (c) expanding participation opportunities in public life. Civil society organizations as well as public institutions have an important role to play as change agents in this regard.
Flash Eurobarometer 345; Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE); ESS - European Social Survey 6 - 2012; European Quality of Life Survey 2003; EU-SILC
%0 Journal Article
%1 priestley2016political
%A Priestley, Mark
%A Stickings, Martha
%A Loja, Ema
%A Grammenos, Stefanos
%A Lawson, Anna
%A Waddington, Lisa
%A Fridriksdottir, Bjarney
%D 2016
%J Electoral Studies
%K 2016 Disability EB_input2016 Eurobarometer FDZ_IUP SCOPUSindexed SSCIindexed ZA5780 accessibility article checked english european_union human_rights indexproved input2016 political_participation review_proved reviewed social_indicators
%P 1-9
%R 10.1016/j.electstud.2016.01.009
%T The political participation of disabled people in Europe: Rights, accessibility and activism
%U http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379416000093
%V 42
%X This paper provides the first systematic cross-national assessment of disabled people's electoral and political participation, based on research in the 28 Member States of the European Union and in the context of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. A mixed methods approach included policy analysis, information requests to national experts and secondary analysis of European survey data. The evidence populated indicators which suggest four lines of action: (a) lifting legal and administrative barriers; (b) raising awareness; (c) making political participation more accessible; (c) expanding participation opportunities in public life. Civil society organizations as well as public institutions have an important role to play as change agents in this regard.
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