Hong Kong's Tortuous Democratization: A Comparative Analysis (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415320542)

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.

Author: Ming Sing
ISBN-10: 0415320542
ISBN-13: 9780415320542
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 12/11/2003
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.49lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.54w x 0.95d