Hong Kong's tortuous democratization : a comparative analysis /
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| Author / Creator: | Sing, Ming, 1960- |
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| 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 |
| 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. |
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| 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 |