TY  - BOOK
AU  - Busby,Joshua W.
TI  - Moral movements and foreign policy
T2  - Cambridge studies in international relations
SN  - 978-0-521-12566-6
U1  - 327.101303.484 21E
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge, New York, Melbourne [etc.]
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Social action
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Nonprofit organizations
KW  - Pressure groups
KW  - Values
KW  - International relations
N1  - Bibliogr. p. 273-312; Machine generated contents note: 1. States of grace; 2. Movement success and state acceptance of normative commitments; 3. Bono made Jesse Helms cry: Jubilee 2000 and the campaign for developing country debt relief; 4. Climate change: the hardest problem in the world; 5. From God's mouth: messenger effects and donor responses to HIV/AIDS; 6. The search for justice and the international criminal court; 7. Conclusions and the future of principled advocacy
N2  - "Why do advocacy campaigns succeed in some cases but fail in others? What conditions motivate states to accept commitments championed by principled advocacy movements? Joshua W. Busby sheds light on these core questions through an investigation of four cases - developing country debt relief, climate change, AIDS, and the International Criminal Court - in the G-7 advanced industrialized countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States). Drawing on hundreds of interviews with policy practitioners, he employs qualitative, comparative case study methods, including process-tracing and typologies, and develops a framing/gatekeepers argument, emphasizing the ways in which advocacy campaigns use rhetoric to tap into the main cultural currents in the countries where they operate. Busby argues that when values and costs potentially pull in opposing directions, values will win if domestic gatekeepers who are able to block policy change believe that the values at stake are sufficiently important"--
ER  -