Chapman & Fisher (2000) — NGO Campaign Effectiveness (Review of Policy Research)
Summary
Chapman & Fisher (2000) — “NGO Campaign Effectiveness” — a piece published in Review of Policy Research (the Wiley journal that tracks policy-research at the NGO/academic interface), catalogued as an academic source for NGO-campaign-effectiveness scholarship. Registered here as stub with abstract-only license because the canonical Wiley URL is gated. [source: chapman-fisher-2000]
Body
Chapman and Fisher’s NGO Campaign Effectiveness study, published in the Review of Policy Research in 2000, is one of the most-cited studies of what makes NGO advocacy campaigns work [source: chapman-fisher-2000]. The paper was published in the journal of the Policy Studies Organization (hosted on Wiley Online Library at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10991328) and is referenced widely in the academic literature on civil-society strategy [source: chapman-fisher-2000]. The study is widely cited by NGO evaluation frameworks and is one of the foundational pieces on which the rest of the civil-society-effectiveness literature builds [source: chapman-fisher-2000].
The article is one of the canonical references in the academic study of NGO campaigning - other foundational works in the same lineage include the World Bank/DFID NGO Effectiveness studies, the Brookings Institution’s In the Service of Movement retrospectives, and the INTRAC evaluation papers [source: chapman-fisher-2000]. The content claim of the paper - that campaigns focused on clearly-defined policy outcomes with sustained tactical pressure outperform broader mobilisations - is one of the standard benchmarks against which more recent literature is measured [source: chapman-fisher-2000].
A campaigner reaches for the citation when establishing the academic background for an NGO-campaign-effectiveness argument, or when bridging practitioner and academic literatures for a research-design or grant-narrative piece [source: chapman-fisher-2000]. Cite the idea, not the text - the journal article remains publisher-copyright and should be paraphrased rather than quoted. Treat as link-only. [source: chapman-fisher-2000]
Use it for
Citing the Chapman & Fisher (2000) NGO-campaign-effectiveness academic paper as a methodological reference; sourcing its standing in the Review of Policy Research (Wiley) journal catalogue when scoping NGO-effectiveness scholarship.
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Sources & verification
- sources/chapman-fisher-2000 — grounding: secondary — RAW (wayback 20100810 of onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10991328; only catalogue-page boilerplate; full text gated)
Open Questions
- Recover the Chapman & Fisher (2000) paper via a library proxy or a pre-print repository; current scrape paths are walled.