Organizing for Democracy: Ngos, Civil Society, and the Philippine State

by Lela Garner Noble

Book Overview

The number, variety, and political prominence of non-governmental organization in the Philippines present a unique opportunity to study citizen activism. Nearly 60,000 in number by some estimates, grassroots and support organizations promote the interests of farmers, the urban poor, women, and indigenous peoples. They provide an avenue for political participation and a mechanism, unequaled elsewhere in Southeast Asia, for redressing the inequities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824820436
• ISBN13: 9780824820435
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"