264 Chasing the Wind: Assessing Philippine Democracy, Second Edition Pulse Asia, Inc. He is a keen student of politics and feels equally comfortable vigorously chasing it on the streets, leisurely exploring it in the university's classrooms, or willfully unmasking it in the nation's darkest corridors of power. For the better part of ve decades, this intimate exposure to his object of fascination has convinced him of one thing: that where politics is the problem, it, too, must nurture the solution. Temario C. Rivera is a retired professor and former chair of the Department of Political Science of the University of the Philippines. He also served as professor of international politics at the International Christian University of Tokyo. He earned his A.B. and M.A. from the University of the Philippines and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His multi-awarded book, Landlords and Capitalists: Class, Family, and State in Philippine Manufacturing (1994) received the best social science book award by the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) of the Philippines. Under his editorship, the Philippine Political Science Journal gained the distinction of being the rst professional social science journal in the U.P. system and the PSSC to be awarded an ISI status and is now published by Routledge. He has published extensively on the politics of development and democratization, elections, political families, political parties, and left-wing politics. He is currently chair of the board of directors of the Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG), a research and policy advocacy NGO. Malaya C. Ronas is a retired professor of political science at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City. He earned his B.A. and M.A. from the University of the Philippines and a second master's degree from the Fletcher School, Tufts University. He served as chair of the U.P. Department of Political Science for two terms and was a former president of the Philippine Political Science Association. He has published articles and book chapters on the ASEAN and regional cooperation, Philippine foreign relations, and Philippine politics. Luis V. Teodoro is a retired journalism professor of the University of the Philippines-College of Mass Communication of which he was dean for two terms and former chair of its Journalism Department. He has written and edited several books, among them: Out of this Struggle: the Filipinos in Hawaii and Two Perspectives on Philippine Literature and Society (with E. San Juan, Jr.) His works on mass media and press freedom include: Mass Media Laws and Regulations in the Philippines (with R. Kabatay); Community Communication: An Introduction (1997); and several publications of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR). A collection of his essays on communication and the media, In Medias Res, was published in 2012, followed by a collection of his opinion pieces, Vantage Point: The Sixth Estate and Other Discoveries (2014) which won the 2015 National Book Award for Journalism. His collection of awardwinning ction, The Undiscovered Country, was published in 2006. He is an alumnus of the U.P. Department of English and the Indian Institute of Mass Communication of New Delhi, India.