Hong Kong's tortuous democratization : a comparative analysis / / Ming Sing

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783855603321
• Autore: Sing Ming <1960->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2004
• ISBN: 1-134-36074-6; 1-280-05712-2; 0-203-18040-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 303 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: RoutledgeCurzon contemporary China series ; ; 2
• Disciplina: 320.95125
• Soggetti: Democracy - China - Hong Kong; Democratization - China - Hong Kong; Hong Kong (China) Politics and government; Hong Kong (China) Politics and government 1997-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-299) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Hong Kong's Tortuous Democratization A comparative analysis; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Studying Hong Kong from a comparative perspective: an anomaly for modernization theory (1980-mid-2002); 2 Hong Kong's democratization: outcome of bargaining among multiple actors; 3 Why was Hong Kong an anomaly before 1984? Lack of top-downand bottom-up democratization (1946-84); 4 Britain's first retreat from rapid democratization and formation of the first pro-democratic alliance; 5 Growing vibrancy of society-led democratic reform: polarization, compromise and decisions over Hong Kong's democratization (late-1986-90); 6 Renewed British-led democratic reform from 1992 to 1994: ambivalence in public support for democratic reform; 7 Decline in popular mobilization for democracy and emergenceof PRC-initiated democratic reversal (1992-7); 8 Further democratic reversalin the post-handover period (mid-1997-2002); 9 Hong Kong as a rare anomaly to modernization theory; Appendix 1 Different blueprints for the legislature of 1997; Appendix 2 Details of interviews undertaken; Appendix 3 Member organizations of Joint Association of People's Organizations (JAPOD); Appendix 4 Member organizations of Democracy 2000; Appendix 5 Members of JCPDG; Appendix 6 Sources for Table 8.10; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book raises interesting questions about the process of democratization in Hong Kong. It asks why democracy has been so long delayed when Hong Kong's level of socio-economic development has become so high. It relates democratization in Hong Kong to wider studies of the democratization process elsewhere, and it supplements the received wisdom - that democracy was delayed because of colonial rule and by the opposition of China - with new thinking, for example, that its quasi-bureaucratic authoritarian political structure vested power in bureaucrats who refused to have top-down democratizatio