ON JUST GROUND: Struggling for Agrarian  Justice and Citizenship Rights in the Rural Philippines (2006)
By Jennifer C. Franco, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., et al.
312 pages; paperbound, bookpaper – P 450.00 (US$17.00)
The book tries to show how conventional portrayals of rural poor people's collective action not only falls far short of reality, but also obscures an important trend in Philippines rural politics and society. Rural poor people's mobilization 'from below' are increasingly an integral part of the strategic battle over the current boundaries of democratization system-wide. The book describes and analyzes contemporary local developments in the rural social movement field in the Philippines. It aims to help bring to light any new articulations of 'difference and possibility' that may be unfolding there and from there.

POLICY ADVOCACY: Experiences and Lessons from the Philippines (2005)
By Patrick Patino, Joel Rocamora, et al.
134 pages; paperbound, bookpaper - P200.00  (US$ 13.00)
The book is a collection of 8 articles discussing civil society’s experiences and lessons on policy advocacy in the Philippines. Written by prominent policy advocates in the country, the discussions give the readers the insights, perspectives and challenges of advocacy work on such issues as constitutional reform, electoral reform, local sectoral representation, women, labor, and urban poor. The book is a must for everyone who wants to understand the “formal and informal” rules in policy advocacy in the Philippines.

BEYOND GOOD GOVERNANCE:  Participatory Democracy in the Philippines (2004)
Edited by Marisol Estrella and Nina Iszatt                                   
369 pages; paperbound; bookpaper - P 450.00  (US$ 17.00)
This publication examines the democratic spaces available to citizens’ involvement in governance processes that affect their lives. It provides a systematic overview of laws and policies that have provided inroads for citizen participation in three democracies-in-progress: Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. It also describes how civil society actors are responding to the varying opportunities opened up by the decentralization process in each of the three politics - from extracting greater accountability from elected officials to active participation in the local development planning.

Handbook on Advocacy Strategy and Techniques Development (2003)
By Maria Dolores G. Alicias, Mervin John C. de Roma, Teresa Melgar, Gus Miclat, Maitet D. Pascual, Patrick I. Patino, Charmaine G. Ramos, Joel Rocamora and Djorina Velasco
196 pages; paperbound; bookpaper - P 275.00  (US$ 13.50)
There is no one set of ‘lessons’ on advocacy that needs to be learned. Because circumstances vary greatly from one country to another, what needs to be learned is a set of analytical tools (political mapping, economic policy analysis) and advocacy techniques (research, media work, coalition building, etc.). This manual provides a rough guide to these tools and techniques.

Electoral Campaign Management Training Manual (2000)
By Francisco A. Cinco
132 pages; paperbound; bookpaper - P250.00  (US$ 13.00)
This book is for reform-minded politicians (barangay, district, provincial levels), campaign managers, and operators of electoral campaigns who work for a candidate’s victory. As a partisan tool in political campaigning, it gives basic orientation, and explains the technology, strategy, and conduct of Philippine elections.

CAMPAIGNING FOR DEMOCRACY: Grassroots Citizenship Movements, Less-Than-Democratic Elections, and Regime Transition in the Philippines (2000)
By Jennifer Conroy Franco
429 pages; paperbound; bookpaper - P 500.00  (US$ 18.00)
This book is about Philippine politics during the twentieth century.  It helps us to understand the significance of elections in the Philippines and, by extension, in other countries. The Philippine case, Franco argues, has lessons to teach about how elections that occur in conditions far from ideal and often in decidedly undemocratic circumstances can become means for changing those adverse conditions into more democratic ones.

ESTRATEHIYANG BIBINGKA: Sa Implementasyon ng Reporma sa Lupa (2000)
By Saturnino M. Borras
235 pages; paperbound; newsprint - P 200.00 (US$ 12.00)
The book, according to former Agrarian Reform Secretary Horacio “Boy” Morales Jr., is “timely and useful for agrarian reform.” It presents analysis of the experiences in agrarian reform that are based both in theory and practice. Reform advocates will find the pointers on how to successfully implement reforms in the context of an unfavorable political environment motivating. Valuable information on the importance of state and society in implementing effective agrarian reform in private lands makes the Bibingka Strategy a must read for civil society actors and state reformists.

REBELS, WARLORDS AND ULAMA: A Reader On Muslim Separatism and the War in Southern Philippines (1999)
by Eric Gutierrez, Aijaz Ahmad, Francisco L. Gonzales, Eliseo R. Mercado Jr., OMI, Joel Rocamora, Marites Danguilan-Vitug & Abdulwahab Guialal
396 pages; paperbound; bookpaper - P 375.00  (US$ 15.50)
The 12 essays in this reader, most of them published at various points within a thirty-year span, provide answers to many of the questions regarding the roots and history of the Moro insurgency. The reader reveals some details and insights into specific incidents and individuals involved. It provides an overview of the situation of the entire Mindanao region, but also zooms in on certain provinces and families. This reader is for the simply curious onlooker trying to make sense of the conflict in Mindanao, as well as for the serious student and watcher of the Moro issue.

BIBINGKA STRATEGY IN LAND REFORM IMPLEMENTATION: Autonomous Peasant Movements and State Reformists in the Philippines (1999)
By Saturnino M. Borras
199 pages; paperbound; bookpaper - P 250.00  (US$ 13.00)
The book, looking into the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program  argues that “land reform can be implemented in politically hostile settings when a ‘positive interaction’ occurs between pro-reform mobilizations ‘from below’ and pro-reform initiatives ‘from above.’ By highlighting ‘success stories,’ the book challenges a persistent dichotomy in the literature between those who view the outcomes of land reform policy as predetermined structural-institutional factors (or prior distribution of power in society), and those who emphasize the role of policy elites (policymakers and managers) in carrying out redistributive land reform.

Transitions to Democracy in East and Southeast Asia (1999)
By G. Luis Igaya, Dorothy Guerrero, Carmel Abao, Charles Santiago, M. Nadarajah, Regina Abesamis, Mastinah Saleh and Joel Rocamora
260 pages; paperbound; bookpaper - P 300.00  (US$ 14.00)
The essays in this volume are efforts to understand the processes of transition to democracy in five countries-Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and South Korea. The common concerns running through the essays include the Asian financial crisis, the institutionalization of formal democratic processes such as a competitive party system, the struggle among political, economic, and bureaucratic elites, the intervention or non-intervention of the middle class and popular classes in the political process, and the role of civil society actors.

PEOPLE POWER AND RESOURCES IN EVERYDAY LIFE Critical Essays on the Politics of Environment in the Philippines (1999)
By Babette P. Resurreccion & Edsel E. Sajor
190 pages; paperbound; bookpaper - P 300.00 (US$ 14.00)
The book is a collection of essays that explores how power is enmeshed in society-nature relations in concrete Philippine settings. Informed by current social theories on power, environment and development, the authors have taken micro-level resource use situations as their starting point of analysis, and how these situations intersect with the state and wider market forces. These essays are strongly critical of currently popular discourses on environment guided by dichotomous and essentialist frameworks that easily project indigenous peoples, women and the underclasses as ‘vanguards’ and ‘keepers’ of the environment, on one hand; and modernization and the elite as the ‘culprits’ behind environmental degradation, on the other.