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
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