Table of contents : Contents Acknowledgments List of Acronyms 1. In the Name of Civil Society 2. Transformism, Crises of Authority, and the Dominant Bloc in the Philippines 3. Veterans of War and Civic Action: NAMFREL in the 1950s 4. Bishops, Businessmen, and Moral Leadership: CNEA and OQC in the 1960s 5. Volunteers of the Nation and the Empire of Civil Society: NAMFREL in the 1980s 6. Mapping the Movement: NAMFREL 1986 in Six Provincial Cities and Towns 7. Watching theWatchers: The Spectacle of Civil Society 8. From Free Election Movements to People Power: Civil Society Revisited Notes Bibliography Index