<p>This study focuses on the influence a user may have over his or her welfare service, personal assistance. A county, an assistance firm and a user cooperative are compared with the thesis that the organisation that surrounds the users shapes the possibilities the user have to influence his or her personal assistance. There are questions that try to answer if there are outspoken social goals within each organisation. Questions regarding influence of the user when she or he is choosing the assistance provider and the users possibility to influence and his or her power to decide who and when anyone works as an assistant are asked.</p> / Examination skedde vid Mittuniversitetet den 8 juni 2010 på campus Östersund. Betyget för uppsatsen är VG, väl godkänd enligt den äldre betygsmodellen. Uppsatsen är skriven som en del av min magisterutbildning med inriktning mot välfärdsstatens sociala och politiska ekonomi.

This study focuses on the influence a user may have over his or her welfare service, personal assistance. A county, an assistance firm and a user cooperative are compared with the thesis that the organisation that surrounds the users shapes the possibilities the user have to influence his or her personal assistance. There are questions that try to answer if there are outspoken social goals within each organisation. Questions regarding influence of the user when she or he is choosing the assistance provider and the users possibility to influence and his or her power to decide who and when anyone works as an assistant are asked. / Examination skedde vid Mittuniversitetet den 8 juni 2010 på campus Östersund. Betyget för uppsatsen är VG, väl godkänd enligt den äldre betygsmodellen. Uppsatsen är skriven som en del av min magisterutbildning med inriktning mot välfärdsstatens sociala och politiska ekonomi.