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Item Details
| Title:
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HONG KONG'S EMBATTLED DEMOCRACY
A SOCIETAL ANALYSIS |
| By: |
Alvin Y. So |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£37.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0801861454 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780801861451 |
| Publisher: |
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
10 September, 1999 |
| Pages: |
344 |
| Description: |
The author shows how Hong Kong moved from being a non-democracy in the 1970s, to a restricted democracy in the 1980s, to a contested democracy in the 1990s, and how Hong Kong now negotiates a democratic compromise under Chinese rule. |
| Synopsis: |
In July 1997, the British government handed Hong Kong back to China as the world wondered whether the building blocks of democracy hastily laid in Hong Kong over the previous two decades were sturdy enough to withstand the change. While many scholars of democratization have focused on outside forces and legal change, the author of this text argues that - in the case of Hong Kong - the societal dimension reveals more clearly the issues and difficulties of establishing a viable democracy. He shows how Hong Kong moved from being a non-democracy in the 1970s to a restricted democracy in the 1980s to a contested democracy in the 1990s and how Hong Kong now negotiates a democratic compromise under Chinese rule. The change in the speed and direction of Hong Kong democratization, argues Alvin Y. So, arises from the clash of interests between service professionals (such as teachers, journalists and lawyers) and the business sector. So highlights the crucial role played by Hong Kong's business-entrepreneurial class, which rose in power and influence, developed an alliance with the Chinese government, and slowed down democratization before the handover.By analyzing the shifting interests and alliances of the populace, So seeks to explain why democracy in Hong Kong under Beijing's rule is much more like the limited democracy of the Hong Kong of the 1980s. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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