03900nam 22006374a 450 991078385560332120230912232722.01-134-36074-61-280-05712-20-203-18040-2(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|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierHong Kong's tortuous democratization a comparative analysis /Ming SingLondon ;New York :RoutledgeCurzon,2004.1 online resource (xvi, 303 pages) illustrationsRoutledgeCurzon contemporary China series ;20-415-85666-3 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-DemocracyDemocratization320.95125Sing Ming1960-1470653MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783855603321Hong Kong's tortuous democratization3682652UNINA