[1][2][3][4] He wrote the dissenting Minority Report and participated actively in the public opposition to the proposed change.
He has been a work systems consultant, a development and investment banker, the chief executive officer of a medium-sized group of companies, and a management professor.
[5][6][7] For several years, Azurin was a featured regular columnist for the newspaper Business World, writing on political, economic, technology and social issues.
[14] Among Azurin's other books are: Power and Privilege: Essays on Politics, Economics, and Government(2010)[15][16] and Power Without Virtue: A Critical Perspective on Philippine Governance (2008) [17][18] Azurin’s most recent book is Expanding Strategic Perspective: Revisiting Lessons from History and the Classics (2023) published by the University of the Philippines Press.
His most recent contribution is the article "Elections as an instrument of political control" to the book Chasing the Wind: Assessing Philippine Democracy, 2nd edition (2016), edited by Felipe B. Miranda and Temario C. Rivera, and published by the Commission on Human Rights (Philippines) and the United Nations Development Programme.