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  title info:
    title: Electoral Politics in Post-1997 Hong Kong
    sub title: Protest, Patronage, and the Media
  name:
    name part: Wong, Stan Hok-Wui.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: IX, 180 p. 9 illus., 7 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book offers a novel and parsimonious framework to help understand Hong Kong’s lengthy democratic transition by analyzing the electoral dynamics of the city’s competitive authoritarian political system, where pro-Beijing and pro-democracy parties have struggled to keep each other in check. The author demonstrates how a relatively liberal media environment has shaped the electoral incentives of the opposition and the pro-establishment elite differently, which has helped the latter improve its basis of electoral support. The political explanation the book puts forward seeks to shed new light on why many autocracies are interested in regularly holding elections that are considered somewhat competitive. This book will be of great interest not only to specialists in comparative studies of democratization, but also to all those concerned with Hong Kong’s democratic transition.
  table of contents: Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1: Media Environment and Civil Society in Hong Kong -- 1.2: Elections in Hong Kong -- 1.3: The Puzzle -- 1.4: My Argument -- 1.5: Why Hong Kong? -- 1.6: The Methodology -- 1.7: Plan of the Book -- Chapter 2: Protest and Patronage: A Theory of Electoral Contest in Competitive Authoritarianism -- 2.1: About the Stakeholders -- 2.2: The Analytical Model -- 2.2.1: Baseline Model: Single Source of Protests -- 2.2.2: Multiple Sources of Protests -- 2.3: Conclusion -- 2.4: Appendix: Proofs -- Chapter 3: Birds in a Cage: Political Institutions and Civil Society in Hong Kong -- 3.1: Historical Background -- 3.2: Major Institutional Arrangements under the Basic Law -- 3.2.1: Relationship between the Central Government and the HKSAR -- 3.2.2: Judiciary -- 3.2.3: Civil Liberties -- 3.2.4: Chief Executive -- 3.2.5: Legislature -- 3.2.6: Interpretation and Amendment of the Basic Law -- 3.3: Last Years of the Colonial Administration -- 3.4: After 1997 -- 3.5: July 1, 2003 -- 3.6: Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Power to the People: Changing Electoral Strategies of the Pro-democracy Opposition Elite -- 4.1: Political Developments after the July 1, 2003 Protest -- 4.1.1: Emergence of New Parties -- 4.1.2: Rise of Contentious Politics -- 4.1.3: Rise of Internal Strife within the Opposition Camp -- 4.2: Key Developments of Civil Society -- 4.3: Conclusion -- Chapter 5: All Politics is Local: Grassroots Strategy of Beijing-sponsored Parties -- 5.1: The Pro-Beijing Camp: Changes and Continuities -- 5.2: Building a United Front at the Grassroots -- 5.3: Beijing-sponsored Parties’ Incentives -- 5.4: Beijing-sponsored Parties’ Grassroots Strategy in Action -- 5.4.1: Defending Their Own Turf -- 5.4.2: Invading Rivals’ Turf -- 5.4.3: Candidate Selection -- 5.5: "Independent" Candidates- 5.6: Redistricting -- 5.7: Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Surrounding the Cities from the Countryside: An Empirical Assessment of the Electoral…
  note: by Stan Hok-Wui Wong.
  subject:
    topic: Political science
  subject:
    topic: Political Science and International Relations
  subject:
    topic: Political Science
  classification: JA1-92
  classification: 320
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      title: Springer eBooks
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  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-387-3
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