Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-254) and index.
In the name of civil society -- Transformism, crises of authority, and the dominant bloc in the Philippines -- Veterans of war and civic action : NAMFREL in the 1950s -- Bishops, businessmen, and moral leadership : CNEA and OQC in the 1960s -- Volunteers of the nation and the empire of civil society : NAMFREL in the 1980s -- Mapping the movement : NAMFREL 1986 in six provincial cities and towns -- Watching the watchers : the spectacle of civil society -- From free election movements to people power : civil society revisited