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Book cover: G-Watch research team on their way up the mountain to meet with farmers in (Insert ISBN number) Bondoc Peninsula for the validation of their research findings (taken by Joy Aceron) Going Vertical: Citizen-led Reform Campaigns in the Philippines (2nd edition) Joy Aceron, Editor Co-authors: Francis Isaac, Jonathan Fox, Danilo Carranza, Benedict Nisperos, Marlon Lara Cornelio, Federick Vincent Marcelo, Rhia Muhi, Romeo Saliga As a framework of analysis, vertical integration untangles the complexity involved in accountability politics. It allows a comprehensive look at all levels, actions and actors. As a strategy, it synthesizes in a coherent whole, the different dimensions critical to a meaningful campaign: state-society engagement, coalition-building approaches, tactics and actions, levels of decision-making, horizontal representation, and vertical coordination. Acknowledgments Joy Aceron is grateful to Francis Isaac and Professor Jonathan Fox for their overall support and assistance in the conduct of research, writing and editing of this book and to Benedict Nisperos, Marlon Cornelio, Danilo Carranza, Federick Vincent Marcelo, Rhia Muhi and Romeo Saliga for generously agreeing to author the case studies. She also wishes to thank Professor Jonathan Fox and Dr. Rosie McGee for guidance and support, and for their peer review of sections 1, 4 and 5; to Karen Brock for her patience in helping with the editing and publication process of the report (first edition); to Dr. Maria Ela Atienza of University of the Philippines- Diliman, and Flora Mae ‘Toix’ Cerna for the review of the draft full book; to Karen Mae Cruz, Julia Fisher-Mackey and Rachel Nadelman for their editing/ proofreading assistance of this full book version; to Aildrene Tan and Rechie Tugawin for the layout and design; to Antonio La Viña and her former colleagues in the Ateneo School of Government; to G-Watch consortium leaders; and to Accountability Research Center, the Institute of Development Studies, Making All Voices Count and all the other people and groups who made this publication happen. Jonathan Fox would like to thank Joy Aceron, Brandon Brockmeyer, Duncan Edwards, Walter Flores, Ariel Frisancho, Aranzazu Guillàn Montero, Jeffrey Hall, Brendan Halloran, Francis Isaac, Rosie McGee, Marta Schaaf and Nils Taxell for their precise comments on earlier versions of Section 2, which is a revision of the essay also published in Fox and Aceron, with Guillàn Montero (2016). Thanks also to participants in the June 2015 workshop on ‘Scaling Accountability’ (co-sponsored by the Transparency and Accountability Initiative, G-Watch and the International Budget Partnership) for insightful debate over the relevance and framing of vertical integration. Thanks to Renata Aguilera Titus for research assistance and to Waad Tammaa for design assistance. Fox’s background work on this chapter was made possible thanks to support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Table of Contents Chapter 1. Introduction: Studying vertically integrated approaches to citizen-led reforms (Joy Aceron and Francis Isaac) ........................................................ 1 1.1 Introducing the research and its significance .............................................................................1 1.2 Case study selection ..........................................................................................................................4 1.3 Why vertical integration as a framework of analysis? .............................................................8 1.4 Overview of the report .....................................................................................................................14 Chapter 2. Doing accountability differently: Vertically integrated civil society policy monitoring and advocacy (Jonathan Fox) 2.1 Introduction .........................................................................................................................................21 2.2 Vertical integration is easier said than done: Five propositions for discussion ...............31 2.3 Final thoughts .....................................................................................................................................51 Chapter 3. Contextualizing vertical integration in Philippine civil society (Joy Aceron and Francis Isaac) ............................................................................................... 59 3.1 The beginnings of Philippine civil society ...................................................................................60 3.2 ‘Champions’ in the State ..................................................................................................................62 3.3 Emergence of social accountability .............................................................................................63