9780415320542 (cloth : alk. paper)

0415320542 (cloth : alk. paper)

"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 Hong Kong's quasi-bureaucratic authoritarian political structure vested power in bureaucrats who refused to allow 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."--BOOK JACKET.

1. Studying Hong Kong from a comparative perspective: an anomaly for modernization theory (1980-mid-2002)

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 (1946-84)

4. Britain'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-1986-90)

6. Renewed British-led democratic reform from 1992 to 1994: ambivalence in public support for democratic reform.

Democracy > China > Hong Kong.

Democratization > China > Hong Kong.

Hong Kong (China) > Politics and government.

Hong Kong (China) > Politics and government > 1997-