Hong Kong's Tortuous Democratization
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Chinese Government
Civil Society
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democratic reform obstacles in Hong Kong
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Faster Democratization
freedom
Functional Constituencies
government
house
Patten's Reform
pattens
Patten’s Reform
PC
Pe Rc
people
PL
political culture analysis
Political Opportunity Structure
Political Parties
political transition
postcolonial governance
Pro-democracy Alliances
Pro-democracy Forces
Pro-democracy Opposition
Pro-democratic Parties
Rational Choice Variable
Sino British Agreement
Socio-economic Development
Speedier Democratization
transition
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- ISBN 9780415320542
- Weight: 750g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Dec 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
