Ole Petter Askheim
Biographic Data
| ID | 195457 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ole Petter Askheim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ole Petter |
| FAMILY NAME | Askheim |
| SIGNATURE | ASKHEIM O P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Inland Norway |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Towards active citizenship and caring democracy? User participation in Norwegian long-term care
The conceptualisation of a caring democracy provides strong arguments against neoliberal welfare states. However, there is currently a knowledge gap regarding how non-market-oriented welfare states are striving to reach their intention of a caring democracy. Based on a qualitative study, this article uses the case of Norwegian long-term care services for older people to provide insight into how this intention is practised in everyday care service…
"We surely are researchers now!" Participatory methods as an empowering process with disabled children in research
The purpose of this study is to illuminate how participatory methods over time in a research project with disabled children may contribute to an empowerment process. Findings indicate that appropriate use of participatory methods over time may contribute to an empowerment process with disabled children. Based on the UNCRC article 12, this paper calls for seizing the great potential that lies in building on disabled children's inner strength and e…
Constructing user participation for disabled people—the Norwegian context
The question raised in the article is how user participation and similar terms have been construed in policy for disabled people since the terms were introduced. The empirical base is Norwegian policy documents dealing specifically with policies relating to disabled people from the mid-1960s to the present. The study is based on a critical discourse analytical approach. The dominant discourses are characterised as ‘varying discourses of democracy…
User participation in the Norwegian Welfare Context: An Analysis of Policy Discourses
This article argues that the social construction of user participation policies includes both differences and similarities regarding three user groups: older people, disabled people and people with mental health problems. The article is based on a historical discourse analysis of national documents in Norway. It points at a democracy/social rights discourse, based on the idea of social citizenship, as a common and historically stable discourse fo…
Personal assistance in a Scandinavian context: Similarities, differences and developmental traits
Personal assistance (PA) has been characterized as a melting pot consisting of, on the one hand, a social rights discourse with its basis among disabled people, and, on the other hand, a consumer directed market discourse increasingly putting its stamp on welfare policy in the Western world. In the realm of welfare politics, these discourses are, in many ways, opposites, but have found common ground in the demand for a more individual and consume…
Empowerment and personal assistance – resistance, consumer choice, partnership or discipline
The concept of empowerment has been closely linked to the development of personal assistance (PA) and the independent living ideology. However, the use of the concept of empowerment has been disputed as it has begun to be used in both the marketization of the PA scheme and as a government strategy to promote active partnership. In this article, we take a closer look at the concept of empowerment and how different approaches capture different rela…
Political citizenship and local political participation for disabled people
The theme of this article is political citizenship among people with disabilities. Political citizenship on the basis of gender and ethnicity has received attention internationally. However, there has been little attention on political citizenship of persons with disabilities. The article sheds light on political representation at the local level in Norway. The data used are from a survey sent to 767 political representatives in local politics an…
Personal assistance: What happens to the arrangement when the number of users increases and new user groups are included
Using data from two representative surveys among the users of personal assistance in Norway carried out in 2002 and 2010, this paper examines developments and consequences of a strong increase of users and an extension of the target group. Users with mobility impairments still dominate, but the proportion of people with intellectual impairments, brain injuries, and sensory impairments have increased. The ‘new' users seem to be allocated fewer hou…
Personal Assistance in Sweden and Norway: From Difference to Convergence
Within the same welfare state model, Norway and Sweden have established very different models for personal assistance. Sweden has developed a model with a strong consumerist profile with extensive rights and choices for users. In Norway, state control of the arrangement has been stronger. Users’ rights have been weaker and decisions are left to the discretion of the professionals in the welfare services. Recent political signals in both countries…
Personal assistance—direct payments or alternative public service. Does it matter for the promotion of user control
Personal assistance organised as direct payments is seen as an important means for securing user control and freeing disabled people from their reliance on welfare professionals and unpaid carers. The hypothesis put forward in the article is that just looking at whether personal assistance is organised as direct payments or as an alternative service represents an overly restricted approach to judge how the user’s preferences are taken care of. By…
Empowerment as guidance for professional social work: An act of balancing on a slack rope
The goals of empowerment raise new challenges for the social work professions. From being in an authoritative position the professionals should behave more like partners and advocates on the users' terms. The development creates further uncertainty and dilemmas since the ideological sources of empowerment are very different. One important source is the radical, activist movements among service users, but empowerment is also an important part of t…
Personal Assistance for People with Intellectual Impairments: Experiences and dilemmas
The article gives an account of how personal assistance is adapted to people with intellectual impairments in Norway and the experiences with the arrangement for this target group. Most space, however, is given to a discussion of the challenges and dilemmas of including people with intellectual impairments in the target group for personal assistance, since other people than the user as a rule fill the role as manager of the service. Special atten…
Personal Assistance for Disabled People – The Norwegian Experience
This article presents data from a survey of all disabled people in Norway who receive personal assistance in the municipalities that have been granted subsidies from the state. It concentrates on the following issues: – Who are the users of personal assistance? What distinguishes them from other disabled people? – What dimensions has personal assistance as a service? How has it influenced the total service to the recipients and how is this compos…
User participation in the Norwegian Welfare Context: An Analysis of Policy Discourses
This article argues that the social construction of user participation policies includes both differences and similarities regarding three user groups: older people, disabled people and people with mental health problems. The article is based on a historical discourse analysis of national documents in Norway. It points at a democracy/social rights discourse, based on the idea of social citizenship, as a common and historically stable discourse fo…
Personal assistance—direct payments or alternative public service. Does it matter for the promotion of user control
Personal assistance organised as direct payments is seen as an important means for securing user control and freeing disabled people from their reliance on welfare professionals and unpaid carers. The hypothesis put forward in the article is that just looking at whether personal assistance is organised as direct payments or as an alternative service represents an overly restricted approach to judge how the user’s preferences are taken care of. By…
Empowerment as guidance for professional social work: An act of balancing on a slack rope
The goals of empowerment raise new challenges for the social work professions. From being in an authoritative position the professionals should behave more like partners and advocates on the users' terms. The development creates further uncertainty and dilemmas since the ideological sources of empowerment are very different. One important source is the radical, activist movements among service users, but empowerment is also an important part of t…
Personal Assistance for People with Intellectual Impairments: Experiences and dilemmas
The article gives an account of how personal assistance is adapted to people with intellectual impairments in Norway and the experiences with the arrangement for this target group. Most space, however, is given to a discussion of the challenges and dilemmas of including people with intellectual impairments in the target group for personal assistance, since other people than the user as a rule fill the role as manager of the service. Special atten…
Political citizenship and local political participation for disabled people
The theme of this article is political citizenship among people with disabilities. Political citizenship on the basis of gender and ethnicity has received attention internationally. However, there has been little attention on political citizenship of persons with disabilities. The article sheds light on political representation at the local level in Norway. The data used are from a survey sent to 767 political representatives in local politics an…
Constructing user participation for disabled people—the Norwegian context
The question raised in the article is how user participation and similar terms have been construed in policy for disabled people since the terms were introduced. The empirical base is Norwegian policy documents dealing specifically with policies relating to disabled people from the mid-1960s to the present. The study is based on a critical discourse analytical approach. The dominant discourses are characterised as ‘varying discourses of democracy…
Personal assistance in a Scandinavian context: Similarities, differences and developmental traits
Personal assistance (PA) has been characterized as a melting pot consisting of, on the one hand, a social rights discourse with its basis among disabled people, and, on the other hand, a consumer directed market discourse increasingly putting its stamp on welfare policy in the Western world. In the realm of welfare politics, these discourses are, in many ways, opposites, but have found common ground in the demand for a more individual and consume…
Empowerment and personal assistance – resistance, consumer choice, partnership or discipline
The concept of empowerment has been closely linked to the development of personal assistance (PA) and the independent living ideology. However, the use of the concept of empowerment has been disputed as it has begun to be used in both the marketization of the PA scheme and as a government strategy to promote active partnership. In this article, we take a closer look at the concept of empowerment and how different approaches capture different rela…
Personal Assistance for Disabled People – The Norwegian Experience
This article presents data from a survey of all disabled people in Norway who receive personal assistance in the municipalities that have been granted subsidies from the state. It concentrates on the following issues: – Who are the users of personal assistance? What distinguishes them from other disabled people? – What dimensions has personal assistance as a service? How has it influenced the total service to the recipients and how is this compos…
Personal assistance: What happens to the arrangement when the number of users increases and new user groups are included
Using data from two representative surveys among the users of personal assistance in Norway carried out in 2002 and 2010, this paper examines developments and consequences of a strong increase of users and an extension of the target group. Users with mobility impairments still dominate, but the proportion of people with intellectual impairments, brain injuries, and sensory impairments have increased. The ‘new' users seem to be allocated fewer hou…
Personal Assistance for Disabled People – The Norwegian Experience
This article presents data from a survey of all disabled people in Norway who receive personal assistance in the municipalities that have been granted subsidies from the state. It concentrates on the following issues: – Who are the users of personal assistance? What distinguishes them from other disabled people? – What dimensions has personal assistance as a service? How has it influenced the total service to the recipients and how is this compos…
Empowerment as guidance for professional social work: An act of balancing on a slack rope
The goals of empowerment raise new challenges for the social work professions. From being in an authoritative position the professionals should behave more like partners and advocates on the users' terms. The development creates further uncertainty and dilemmas since the ideological sources of empowerment are very different. One important source is the radical, activist movements among service users, but empowerment is also an important part of t…
Personal Assistance for People with Intellectual Impairments: Experiences and dilemmas
The article gives an account of how personal assistance is adapted to people with intellectual impairments in Norway and the experiences with the arrangement for this target group. Most space, however, is given to a discussion of the challenges and dilemmas of including people with intellectual impairments in the target group for personal assistance, since other people than the user as a rule fill the role as manager of the service. Special atten…
Personal assistance—direct payments or alternative public service. Does it matter for the promotion of user control
Personal assistance organised as direct payments is seen as an important means for securing user control and freeing disabled people from their reliance on welfare professionals and unpaid carers. The hypothesis put forward in the article is that just looking at whether personal assistance is organised as direct payments or as an alternative service represents an overly restricted approach to judge how the user’s preferences are taken care of. By…
Personal Assistance in Sweden and Norway: From Difference to Convergence
Within the same welfare state model, Norway and Sweden have established very different models for personal assistance. Sweden has developed a model with a strong consumerist profile with extensive rights and choices for users. In Norway, state control of the arrangement has been stronger. Users’ rights have been weaker and decisions are left to the discretion of the professionals in the welfare services. Recent political signals in both countries…
Personal assistance: What happens to the arrangement when the number of users increases and new user groups are included
Using data from two representative surveys among the users of personal assistance in Norway carried out in 2002 and 2010, this paper examines developments and consequences of a strong increase of users and an extension of the target group. Users with mobility impairments still dominate, but the proportion of people with intellectual impairments, brain injuries, and sensory impairments have increased. The ‘new' users seem to be allocated fewer hou…
Political citizenship and local political participation for disabled people
The theme of this article is political citizenship among people with disabilities. Political citizenship on the basis of gender and ethnicity has received attention internationally. However, there has been little attention on political citizenship of persons with disabilities. The article sheds light on political representation at the local level in Norway. The data used are from a survey sent to 767 political representatives in local politics an…
Personal assistance in a Scandinavian context: Similarities, differences and developmental traits
Personal assistance (PA) has been characterized as a melting pot consisting of, on the one hand, a social rights discourse with its basis among disabled people, and, on the other hand, a consumer directed market discourse increasingly putting its stamp on welfare policy in the Western world. In the realm of welfare politics, these discourses are, in many ways, opposites, but have found common ground in the demand for a more individual and consume…
Empowerment and personal assistance – resistance, consumer choice, partnership or discipline
The concept of empowerment has been closely linked to the development of personal assistance (PA) and the independent living ideology. However, the use of the concept of empowerment has been disputed as it has begun to be used in both the marketization of the PA scheme and as a government strategy to promote active partnership. In this article, we take a closer look at the concept of empowerment and how different approaches capture different rela…
User participation in the Norwegian Welfare Context: An Analysis of Policy Discourses
This article argues that the social construction of user participation policies includes both differences and similarities regarding three user groups: older people, disabled people and people with mental health problems. The article is based on a historical discourse analysis of national documents in Norway. It points at a democracy/social rights discourse, based on the idea of social citizenship, as a common and historically stable discourse fo…
Constructing user participation for disabled people—the Norwegian context
The question raised in the article is how user participation and similar terms have been construed in policy for disabled people since the terms were introduced. The empirical base is Norwegian policy documents dealing specifically with policies relating to disabled people from the mid-1960s to the present. The study is based on a critical discourse analytical approach. The dominant discourses are characterised as ‘varying discourses of democracy…
"We surely are researchers now!" Participatory methods as an empowering process with disabled children in research
The purpose of this study is to illuminate how participatory methods over time in a research project with disabled children may contribute to an empowerment process. Findings indicate that appropriate use of participatory methods over time may contribute to an empowerment process with disabled children. Based on the UNCRC article 12, this paper calls for seizing the great potential that lies in building on disabled children's inner strength and e…
Towards active citizenship and caring democracy? User participation in Norwegian long-term care
The conceptualisation of a caring democracy provides strong arguments against neoliberal welfare states. However, there is currently a knowledge gap regarding how non-market-oriented welfare states are striving to reach their intention of a caring democracy. Based on a qualitative study, this article uses the case of Norwegian long-term care services for older people to provide insight into how this intention is practised in everyday care service…
Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Public relations (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works)