Hong Kong's tortuous democratization [[electronic resource] ] : a comparative analysis / / Ming Sing
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| Autore: |
Sing Ming <1960->
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| Titolo: |
Hong Kong's tortuous democratization [[electronic resource] ] : a comparative analysis / / Ming Sing
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 320.95125 |
| Soggetto topico: | Democracy - China - Hong Kong |
| Democratization - China - Hong Kong | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Hong Kong (China) Politics and government |
| Hong Kong (China) Politics and government 1997- | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Hong Kong's tortuous democratization |
| ISBN: | 1-280-05712-2 |
| 0-203-18040-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910451051403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
RoutledgeCurzon contemporary China series ; ; 2.