Hong Kong's Tortuous Democratization: A Comparative Analysis

by Ming Sing

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134360741
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/02/2004
Series:	ISSN
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
Lexile:	1600L (what's this?)
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Ming Sing

Table of Contents

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