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Advocacy strategies for human rights: the campaign for the moratorium on the death penalty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2016

Raffaele Marchetti
Raffaele Marchetti*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science and School of Government, Luiss Guido Carli, Roma, Italy
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*E-mail: rmarchetti@luiss.it
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Abstract

This article examines the different strategies used by transnational actors in advocacy against the death penalty. In particular, it studies the strategies adopted by the transnational campaign for the moratorium on capital punishment in view of the United Nations General Assembly vote of 2007 and subsequent years (2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014). The article shows that a variety of different strategies are used in the organizational, institutional, and communicative domains. Within the broader debate on norm diffusion, this article sheds light on the under-investigated area of specific tactics, which include horizontal networking, multilayered political lobbying, reason-based framing, and emotion-based story-telling, deployed by transnational activists to induce key actors to change their policy preference.

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advocacycivil societyItalian foreign policyglobal governancedeath penaltyUnited Nations
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Research Article
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Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica , Volume 46 , Issue 3 , November 2016 , pp. 355 - 378
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© Società Italiana di Scienza Politica 2016 

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