Overview
Presents an original contribution on competitive authoritarianism
Provides a novel and empirically grounded perspective to help understand the politics of Hong Kong’s lengthy democratic transition
Employs new methods to study difficult questions in comparative politics (e.g. estimating bias in redistricting)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Civil society in Hong Kong
- Electoral Politics in Post-1997 Hong Kong
- Electoral competition in authoritarian regimes in Hong
- Electoral strategies in Hong Kong
- Grassroots strategies of the pro-establishment camp
- Hong Kong in comparative perspective
- Media freedom in Hong Kong
- Patronage activities in Hong Kong
- Political System in Hong Kong
- Political system in Hong Kong
- Pro-democracy opposition elite in Hong Kong
- Pro-establishment camp in Hong Kong
- Pro-establishment parties in Hong Kong
- Protest and patronage in China
- Protest and patronage in Hong Kong
About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Electoral Politics in Post-1997 Hong Kong
Book Subtitle: Protest, Patronage, and the Media
Authors: Stan Hok-Wui Wong
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-387-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-386-6Published: 10 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1354-6Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-387-3Published: 29 March 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 180
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Science