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UNINA9910809452403321 |
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Sing Ming <1960-> |
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Hong Kong's tortuous democratization : a comparative analysis / / Ming Sing |
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London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004 |
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1-134-36074-6 |
1-280-05712-2 |
0-203-18040-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvi, 303 pages) : illustrations |
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RoutledgeCurzon contemporary China series ; ; 2 |
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Disciplina |
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Democracy - China - Hong Kong |
Democratization - China - Hong Kong |
Hong Kong (China) Politics and government |
Hong Kong (China) Politics and government 1997- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-299) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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