The Philippines: New Directions in Domestic Policy and Foreign Relations

David G. Timberman (ed.)

Asia Society

1998

Suggestions for Further Reading

 

Introduction: The Philippines' New Normalcy

 

Broad, Robin with John Cavanagh. Plundering Paradise: The Struggle for the Environment in the Philippines (Berkeley: University of California, 1993).

Laude, Carl. Leaders, Factions and Parties: The Structure of Philippine Politics (New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asian Studies Program, 1965).

Silliman, G. Sidney and Lela G. Noble, eds. Organizing for Democracy: NGOs, Civil Society and the Philippine State (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998).

Steinberg, David J. The Philippines: A Singular and a Plural Place. 3rd ed. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1994).

Thompson, Mark R. The Anti-Marcos Struggle: Personalistic Rule and Democratic Transition in the Philippines (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995).

Vitug, Marites Daänguilan. Power from the Forest: The Politics of Logging (Manila: Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, 1993).

 

Sustaining Economic and Political Reform: The Challenges Ahead

Berlow, Alan. Dead Season: A Story of Murder and Revenge on the Philippine Island of Negros (New York: Pantheon, 1996).

Putzel, James. A Captive Land: The Politics of Agrarian Reform in the Philippines (Manila: Ateneo de Manila Press, 1992).

Thompson, W. Scott and Wilfrido V. Villacorta, eds. The Philippine Road to NIChood (Manila: De La Salle University, 1996).

Timberman, David G. A Changeless Land: Continuity and Change in Philippine Politics (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1991).

 

Philippine Economic Growth: Can It Last?

Campos, Jose Edgardo and Hilton L. Root, The Key to the Asian Miracle: Making Shared Growth Credible (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1996).

de Dios, Emmanuel, et al. Poverty, Growth, and the Fiscal Crisis (Makati: Philippine Institute for Development and the International Development Research Center, 1993).

Fabella, R. and H. Sakai, eds. Toward Sustained Growth (Tokyo: Institute of Developing Economies, 1995).

Hutchcroft, Paul. "Oligarchs and Cronies in the Philippine State: The Politics of Patrimonial Plunder," World Politics, Vol. 43, no. 3 (1991), pp. 414–50.

Temario C. Rivera. Landlords and Capitalists: Class, Family, and State in Philippine Manufacturing (Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 1996).

 

The War Against Poverty: A Status Report

Balisacan, A.M. Poverty, Urbanization and Development Policy: A Philippine Perspective (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995).

de Dios, E. A National Strategy to Fight Poverty. Prepared for the Presidential Commission to Fight Poverty (Manila, 1995).

Intal, P.S., and Bantilan, M.C.S., eds., Understanding Poverty and Inequity in the Philippines (Metro Manila: National Economic and Development Authority).

National Economic and Development Authority. Medium-Term Philippine Development Plan, 1993–98 (Manila, 1995).

____________. Updated Medium-Term Philippine Development Plan, 1993–98 (Manila, 1997).

World Bank. Philippines: A Strategy to Fight Poverty (Washington, D.C., 1995).

 

Decentralization, Democracy, and Development

Kerkvliet, Benedict J. and Resil B. Mojares, eds. From Marcos to Aquino: Local Perspectives on Political Transition in the Philippines (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1992).

Lacaba, Jose F., ed. Boss: Five Case Studies of Local Politics in the Philippines (Manila: Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism and Institute of Popular Democracy, 1995).

McCoy, Alfred W., ed. An Anarchy of Families: State and Family in the Philippines (Monograph Series, 10) (Madison: University of Wisconsin Center for Southeast Asian Studies, 1994). Innovations (Official Publication of the Local Government Academy, Department of Interior and Local Government, Pasig City).

 

New Directions and Priorities in Philippine Foreign Relations

Cullather, Nick. Illusions of Influence (Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994).

Karnow, Stanley. In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines (New York: Random House, 1989).

McCoy, Alfred W. and Edilberto C. de Jesus. Philippine Social History: Global Trade and Local Transformations (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1982).

 

The Filipino American Community: New Roles and Challenges

Alegado, Dean. "How the Exodus Began: The Third Wave, 1965–." Katipunan (December 1987).

Bulosan, Carlos. America Is in the Heart: A Personal History (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1973).

Filipino American Political Association–Metropolitan Washington, D.C. and Philippine Heritage Foundation. "The Filipino Population of the United States: A Special Profile" (1990).

Lott, Juanita Tamayo. "Migration of a Mentality: The Filipino Community," Asian Americans: Social and Psychological Perspectives, Vol. 2 (Palo Alto, Calif: Science and Behavior Books, 1980).