Institutional Change And The Political Transition In Hong Kong

Author : Ian Scott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349262960

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Institutional Change and the Political Transition in Hong Kong by Ian Scott Pdf

Scott focuses on Hong Kong's political, bureaucratic and legal institutions. The first section is concerned with public opinion on institutional provisions, voting systems and political parties. The second deals with current problems facing the executive, legislature, bureaucracy and legal system. The third part considers the effects of Chinese rule on the social and economic context in which Hong Kong's institutions will, or will not, function. Scott concludes with a discussion of possible scenarios of institutional development.

Author : Li Pang-Kwong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351792059

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Hong Kong from Britain to China by Li Pang-Kwong Pdf

This title was first published in 2000: The Sino-British joint declaration in 1985 had called to the end of British rule in Hong Kong, but the impacts of the agreed introduction of popular election during the transitional period have still not fully emerged. Being granted Hong Kong people governing Hong Kong by China after 1997, Hong Kong people are suddenly exposed to the kind of politics that they were not engaged in before. The transitional politics is further complicated by the fact that the majority of Hong Kong voters supported the democrats, whose political value and orientation differed from that of the Beijing government. In order to comprehend the collective behaviour of the Hong Kong voters, the author first traces the development of the Hong Kong state and put his readers into context of Hong Kong electoral politics. By adopting the cleavage approach in explaining the voters’ choice and the election results since the 1990, the author examines whether the existing institutional arrangements as established by the Basic law is capable of solving the political and electoral conflicts of the days.

Author : Pang-kwong Li
Publisher : Chinese University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9622017835

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Political Order and Power Transition in Hong Kong by Pang-kwong Li Pdf

Leading scholars of Hong Kong studies have contributed their expertise and analyses to this volume in order to better understand the dynamics of change and related issues during this historic period of Hong Kong history. This book highlights some of the key issues that have emerged in the process of transition: British policy towards Hong Kong, political reforms and democratization, relations between the administration and the legislature, the transformation of senior civil service, development of political party, civil society, fiscal policy and land use, etc.

Author : Comparative Education Research Centre
Publisher : Comparative Education Research Centre University G
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110049967

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Education and Political Transition by Comparative Education Research Centre Pdf

Author : Lo Shiu-hing
Publisher : Springer
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349254675

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The Politics of Democratization in Hong Kong by Lo Shiu-hing Pdf

An analysis of the politics of transition in Hong Kong, focusing on the tug-of-war between China and Britain on democratization, and on the interactions between the increasingly politically active people of Hong Kong and the democratizing colonial regime. The successes and failures of British policy since 1984, and the missed opportunities to democratize faster prior to Governor Patten's appointment in 1992 are examined.

Author : Ming K. Chan,Alvin Y. So
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315498645

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Crisis and Transformation in China's Hong Kong by Ming K. Chan,Alvin Y. So Pdf

Hong Kong has undergone sweeping transformation since its return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. This is a multidisciplinary assessment of the new regime and key issues, challenges, crises and opportunities confronting the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).

Author : Pauline Jones Luong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139432283

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Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia by Pauline Jones Luong Pdf

The establishment of electoral systems in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan presents both a complex set of empirical puzzles and a theoretical challenge. Why did three states with similar cultural, historical, and structural legacies establish such different electoral systems? How did these distinct outcomes result from strikingly similar institutional design processes? Explaining these puzzles requires understanding not only the outcome of institutional design but also the intricacies of the process that led to this outcome. Moreover, the transitional context in which these three states designed new electoral rules necessitates an approach that explicitly links process and outcome in a dynamic setting. This book provides such an approach. Finally, it both builds on the key insights of the dominant approaches to explaining institutional origin and change and transcends these approaches by moving beyond the structure versus agency debate.

Author : Beatrice Leung
Publisher : Chinese University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9622017851

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Hong Kong SAR by Beatrice Leung Pdf

There are already many books on the challenges facing the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), but this volume has a distinct contribution to make by offering an analysis of the evolving political order in Hong Kong and its international role. The team of authors comes from tertiary institutions within and outside Hong Kong, and they all have been studying the territory for many years. The authors focus on the plans of the Chinese authorities and the expectations of Hong Kong people. The gap between the two and the associated difficulties are then analysed. The authors also examine the possibilities of crises emerging, as well as the contingency plans formulated to deal with them.

Author : Ngok Ma
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789622098091

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Political Development in Hong Kong by Ngok Ma Pdf

This book reviews the political development of Hong Kong before and after 1997, in particular the evolution of state-society relations in the last two decades, to analyze the slow development of democracy and governance in Hong Kong after 1997. This book is a most comprehensive analysis of the multi-faceted changes in Hong Kong in the last 20 years. The scope of changes analyzed included state functions and institutions, political changes such as party development and development of the Legislative Council, and social changes such as social movements, civil liberties, etc. It helps the reader understand the crisis of governance of Hong Kong after 1997, and the difficulty of democratic development in Hong Kong over the years. The book covers: changing state institutions in Hong Kong in the last few decades; party development in Hong Kong; the changing role and function of the legislature in Hong Kong; the evolution of social movement and movement organizational forms; media freedom, civil liberties, and the role of civil society; and theoretical discussions concerning governance problems and state-society relations in Hong Kong. Special emphasis is placed on how these changes brought about a new state-society relation, which in turn brought governance difficulties after 1997.

Author : Eliza Wing-Yee Lee
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774841900

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Gender and Change in Hong Kong by Eliza Wing-Yee Lee Pdf

Gender and Change in Hong Kong analyzes women's changing identities and agencies amidst the complex interaction of three important forces, namely, globalization, postcolonialism, and Chinese patriarchy. The chapters examine the issues from a number of perspectives to consider legal changes, political participation, the situation of working-class and professional women, sexuality, religion, and international migration.

Author : Wai-man Lam,Percy Luen-tim Lui,Wilson Wong
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789888139477

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Contemporary Hong Kong Government and Politics by Wai-man Lam,Percy Luen-tim Lui,Wilson Wong Pdf

This title describes the present political system and development in Hong Kong. The second edition assesses the main strands of continuity and change in Hong Kong's government and politics since the creation of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 1997.

Author : Khun Eng Kuah,Gilles Guiheux
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789089641311

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Social Movements in China and Hong Kong by Khun Eng Kuah,Gilles Guiheux Pdf

Het uitgangspunt van dit boek is dat Chinese individuen van hun eigen inzet uit moeten kunnen gaan, ongeacht de beperkingen die hen door de staat worden opgelegd. Om hun belangen beter te kunnen verdedigen sluiten sommige individuen zich aan bij sociale bewegingen, die tot sociale protesten kunnen leiden.

Author : Ming Sing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134360758

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Hong Kong's Tortuous Democratization by Ming Sing Pdf

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 : Mathew Y. H. Wong
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811030963

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Comparative Hong Kong Politics by Mathew Y. H. Wong Pdf

This guidebook for students offers a survey of comparative politics intended for use in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is one of the world's great cities, but its political future has never been hazier. Mass protests, contested elections, a 2047 transition causing uncertainty in financial and business elites- for Hong Kong, it is the best of times as well as the worst of times. Hong Kong University politics scholar Matthew Wong brings a clear-headed and fact-based approach, introducing Hong Kong to scholars of comparative politics even as he introduces comparative politics to students in Hong Kong, with this new area-specific reference work, a mix of theory and insights into how political theory can be of value in understanding the case of Hong Kong, complete with datasets and quantitative information that helps to disentangle fact from myth. For Hong Kong residents, scholars, students, and members of civil society, this book will be a breath of fresh air.

Author : R. Ash,P. Ferdinand,B. Hook,R. Porter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780333977262

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Hong Kong in Transition by R. Ash,P. Ferdinand,B. Hook,R. Porter Pdf

This book presents an overview of critical developments surrounding the handover of Hong Kong to Chinese rule. Well-known commentators from a variety of disciplines examine the issues and events in the years leading up to the transfer of sovereignty, and in the eighteen months that followed. Major dilemmas are addressed in the economic, political, legal, social and diplomatic life of the territory, which remain in many cases unresolved and pressing as Hong Kong enters the new century.