Hong Kong's tortuous democratization : a comparative analysis /

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Author / Creator:Sing, Ming, 1960-
Imprint:London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 303 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Routledgecurzon contemporary China series ; 2
RoutledgeCurzon contemporary China series ; 2.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12010789
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ISBN:0203180402
9780203180402
9786610057122
6610057125
9780415320542
0415320542
9781134360741
1134360746
0415320542
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-299) and index.
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Summary:This book raises interesting questions about the process of democratisation in Hong Kong and asks why democracy has been so long delayed when the standard of living in Hong Kong has become so middle class.
Other form:Print version: Sing, Ming, 1960- Hong Kong's tortuous democratization. London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004 0415320542
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 303 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-299) and index.
ISBN:0203180402
9780203180402
9786610057122
6610057125
9780415320542
0415320542
9781134360741
1134360746