Ming Sing

Hong Kong's Tortuous Democratization

A Comparative Analysis

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Produktbeschreibung

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 democratization; a politically weak civil society and a non-participant political culture that crippled bottom-up democratization; plus the division between pro-democratic civil society and political society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 166mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9780415320542
• ISBN-10: 0415320542
• Artikelnr.: 22125798

Autorenporträt

Ming Sing

Inhaltsangabe

1. Studying Hong Kong With a Comparative Perspective: An Anomaly for Modernization Theory (1980
Mid
2000) 2. Hong Kong's Democratization: Outcome of Bargaining among Multiple Actors 3. Why was Hong Kong an Anomaly before 1984? Lack Of Top
Down and Bottom
Up Democratization (1946
1984) 4. UK'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
1990) 6. A Renewed Britain
Led Democratic Reform from 1992 to 1994: Ambivalence in Public Support Democratic Reform 7. 1992
1997: Decline in Popular Mobilization for Democracy and Emergence Of PRC
Initiated Democratic Reversal 8. Further Democratic Reversal in the Post
Handover Period: Mid
1997
2002 9. Hong Kong as a Rare Anomaly to Modernization Theory