Hong Kong's tortuous democratization
Subtitle: a comparative analysis
By: Ming Sing.
Series: Routledgecurzon contemporary China series ;; 2
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Democracy -- China -- Hong Kong.; Democratization -- China -- Hong Kong.; Hong Kong (China) -- Politics and government.; Hong Kong (China) -- Politics and government -- 1997-
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.