01128nam1 2200373 # 450 99000110859020331620021126131029.0000110859USA01000110859(ALEPH)000110859USA0100011085920021126d1982----km-y0enga50------baitaITy|||z|||001yyOrlando FuriosoLudovico Ariostoa cura di Emilio BigiMilanoRusconi1982v.21 cmClassici italiani per l'uomo del nostro tempo2001Classici italiani per l'uomo del nostro tempo0019900011086002033162001 <<2.:>> Canti 24.-46.851.3ITSalbcISBD990001108590203316PAP 1133BKUMACHIARA9020021126USA011251CHIARA9020021126USA011255CHIARA9020021126USA011256CHIARA9020021126USA011310PATRY9020040406USA011717Orlando Furioso981156UNISA03925nam 22006494a 450 991045105140332120200520144314.01-280-05712-20-203-18040-2(CKB)1000000000250644(EBL)200453(OCoLC)56559617(SSID)ssj0000298840(PQKBManifestationID)11196041(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000298840(PQKBWorkID)10237364(PQKB)10390439(MiAaPQ)EBC200453(Au-PeEL)EBL200453(CaPaEBR)ebr10165259(CaONFJC)MIL5712(EXLCZ)99100000000025064420030624d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHong Kong's tortuous democratization[electronic resource] a comparative analysis /Ming SingLondon ;New York RoutledgeCurzon20041 online resource (320 p.)RoutledgeCurzon contemporary China series ;2Description based upon print version of record.0-415-85666-3 0-415-32054-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-299) and index.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 alliance5 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 undertakenAppendix 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; IndexThis 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 democratizatioRoutledgeCurzon contemporary China series ;2.DemocracyChinaHong KongDemocratizationChinaHong KongHong Kong (China)Politics and governmentHong Kong (China)Politics and government1997-Electronic books.DemocracyDemocratization320.95125Sing Ming1960-868430MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451051403321Hong Kong's tortuous democratization1938563UNINA