Campaigns and policy making. Flashcards
What are the different types of campaigns?
newspaper
Individual
pressure groups
What is a Newspaper campaign?
Newspaper campaigns work by targeting audiences, motivating/influencing them to change their attitudes and perception of behaviour. They do this to gain support, strengthening the likelihood that governments will listen and take actions.
What is an individual campaign?
Regardless of whether newspaper or pressure groups get involved, most campaigns are started by a single person who has been affected by an incident or injustice, or who feels strongly about how other people have been treated.
What is a Pressure group campaign?
These refer to organisations that act, in the interest of the public, to influence government decisions and to change laws. They are effective in gaining support from the public, and creating so much pressure from governments, that action is required, such as using protests.
What is an example of a newspaper campaign?
Sarah’s Law
Anne Mings double jeopardy campaign
What are some examples of individual campaigns?
Claire’s Law
Campaign to abolish double jeopardy
What are some examples of pressure group campaigns?
British lung foundation - anti smoking campaigns
Snowdrop campaign
What was the British lung foundations aim?
Wanted to raise awareness for lung disease and minimise the amount of people suffering from lung disease.
What methods did British lung foundation use?
Raising awareness of the risks of smoking and secondary effects. Petitions to get the government to acknowledge the importance of not having a parent or anyone in the car smoking with children in.
What is the Anti-smoking campaign?
The children and families act 2014 - banned smoking in cars with children and packaging standardisation. These campaigns started because of the association found between smoking and lung cancer.
What is Anne Ming’s campaign?
Wishing to see Dunlop convicted of her daughter’s murder, Anne Ming campaigned for a change to the law, lobbying politicians and using the press, TV and radio to publicise the case.
Was Anne Ming’s campaign successful?
Yes, The 2003 criminal Justice act was the results of Anne Ming’s successful campaign. It permitted certain serious crimes to be re-tried again if new compelling evidence is found. Only one re-trial is permitted.
What is Claire’s Law?
A law that enables people to ask the police about the criminal backgrounds of their partner. Claire had been to the police multiple times about her partner, who eventually raped and killed her. It was revealed that he had a criminal record of being violent - if she had known this she could have still been alive, her father says.
what law was placed because of Claire’s law?
The domestic violence disclosure scheme in 2014: allowed partners to see if their partners have any previous domestic abuse convictions
What is the snowdrop campaign?
Campaign that started after the Dunblane massacre in 1996 and gained 750000 signatures to ban all handguns.
