Hong Kong's Tortuous Democratization
A Comparative Analysis
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:7th May '13
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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.
ISBN: 9780415856669
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 280g
320 pages