Hong Kong's Tortuous Democratization: A Comparative Analysis (Routledge Contemporary China Series) - Softcover

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Sing, Ming

 
9780415856669: Hong Kong's Tortuous Democratization: A Comparative Analysis (Routledge Contemporary China Series)
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ISBN 10: 0415856663 ISBN 13: 9780415856669
Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

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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Ming Sing

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415856663
ISBN 13 
9780415856669
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
320

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