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

Ming Sing

ISBN 10: 0415320542 / ISBN 13: 9780415320542

Verlag: Routledge 2003-12-11, 2003

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6666-TNFPD-9780415320542

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• Titel: Hong Kong's Tortuous Democratization: A Comparative Analysis (Routledge Contemporary China Series)
• Verlag: Routledge 2003-12-11
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0415320542
• ISBN-13: 9780415320542
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: New

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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