Hong Kong Politics

A Comparative Introduction
2024
ISBN: 978-981-13-7959-8
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 428 g

Reihe: Hong Kong Studies Reader Series

is a comprehensive and pioneering guide of this emerging field. It aims to advance scholarly understanding of Hong Kong’s political developments since the handover of sovereignty in 1997, using a comparative politics approach. 
The book advances a unique integrated comparative framework for studying Hong Kong through geopolitical, autonomy, centre-periphery, democratisation, political-economic, and governance perspectives. It guides readers to understand and interpret the various political dimensions of Hong Kong in a comprehensive and holistic way. 
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of comparative politics. Experienced political researchers in Hong Kong will find this book illuminating; while comparative political scholars worldwide would also find it a handy introductory text to the important case of Hong Kong. This book is also an excellent resource for instructors and students of Asian Studies, China Studies, and Hong Kong Studies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fong, Brian C. H.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landespolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Wahlen und Volksabstimmungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Toward an Integrated Comparative Framework.- 2. Comparative Geopolitical Perspective: Hong Kong as a Geopolitical Domain.- 3. Comparative Autonomy Perspective: Hong Kong as a Territorial Autonomy.- 4. Comparative Center-Periphery Perspective: Hong Kong as a Periphery.- 5. Comparative Democratization Perspective: Hong Kong as a Hybrid Regime.- 6. Comparative Political-Economic Perspective: Hong Kong as a Capitalist State.- 7. Comparative Governance Perspective: Hong Kong as an Executive Dominant Polity.

Über Autor(innen)

Brian C. H. Fong is Full Professor in the College of Social Sciences at the National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan. His research focuses on great power competition, democratisation, and identity politics, producing more than 80 journal articles, book chapters, authored books, and so forth. He is the author of US-China Great Power Competition in the Indo-Pacifi c: A Tale of Two Hegemons (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) and lead editor of The Routledge Handbook of Great Power Competition (Routledge, 2024).