LEADER 03893nam 22006374a 450 001 9910809452403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-134-36074-6 010 $a1-280-05712-2 010 $a0-203-18040-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000250644 035 $a(EBL)200453 035 $a(OCoLC)56559617 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000298840 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11196041 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000298840 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10237364 035 $a(PQKB)10390439 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC200453 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL200453 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10165259 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL5712 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000250644 100 $a20030624d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHong Kong's tortuous democratization $ea comparative analysis /$fMing Sing 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cRoutledgeCurzon$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 303 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aRoutledgeCurzon contemporary China series ;$v2 311 0 $a0-415-85666-3 311 0 $a0-415-32054-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [267]-299) and index. 327 $aHong 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 327 $a5 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 327 $aAppendix 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 330 $aThis book raises interesting questions about the process of democratization in Hong Kong. It asks why democracy has been so long delayed when Hong Kong's level of socio-economic development has become so high. It relates democratization in Hong Kong to wider studies of the democratization process elsewhere, and it supplements the received wisdom - that democracy was delayed because of colonial rule and by the opposition of China - with new thinking, for example, that its quasi-bureaucratic authoritarian political structure vested power in bureaucrats who refused to have top-down democratizatio 410 0$aRoutledgeCurzon contemporary China series ;$v2. 606 $aDemocracy$zChina$zHong Kong 606 $aDemocratization$zChina$zHong Kong 607 $aHong Kong (China)$xPolitics and government 607 $aHong Kong (China)$xPolitics and government$y1997- 615 0$aDemocracy 615 0$aDemocratization 676 $a320.95125 700 $aSing$b Ming$f1960-$01671809 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809452403321 996 $aHong Kong's tortuous democratization$94034683 997 $aUNINA