Hybrid Politics and New Competitiveness: Hong Kong’s 2007 Chief Executive Election

Case, William

doi:10.1007/s12140-008-9057-9

Cited by 26 publications

(18 citation statements)

References 21 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Following the latter approach, according to which hybrid regimes are conceived in terms of civil liberties and elections, Hong Kong is a liberal authoritarian system, as civil liberties in the region are largely protected by the tradition of rule of law established during the colonial era (e.g. Case 2008; Zakaria 1997). Alternatively, following the typology suggested by Levitsky and Way (2002) and Diamond (2002), Hong Kong may also be regarded as a competitive authoritarian system (e.g.…”

Section: Selectorate Theory: a Brief Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Selectorate Theory in Hybrid Regimes: Comparing Hong Kong and Singapore

Wong

2017

Gov. & oppos.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article investigates public and private goods provision in two hybrid regimes: Hong Kong and Singapore. We build on the selectorate theory, which analyses all regimes in terms of the size of their leaders’ support coalitions. This research follows a differences-in-differences design, with the exogenous political change in Hong Kong in 1997 as a treatment and Singapore as a control case. This study contributes to the literature in two ways. First, as the aim of the selectorate theory is to transcend traditional regime typologies, a focus on hybrid regimes provides another test of the theory beyond the democratic–authoritarian divide. Second, the distinctive comparative set-up allows us to disentangle the effects of the size of the winning coalition from those of supporter loyalty. The empirical results demonstrate that whilst public goods increase with the winning coalition size, private goods provision is not affected unless accompanied by a change in supporter loyalty.

show abstract

Section: Selectorate Theory: a Brief Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Selectorate Theory in Hybrid Regimes: Comparing Hong Kong and Singapore

Wong

2017

Gov. & oppos.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Hong Kong has never progressed beyond partial democratization and instead a liberal authoritarian regime has persisted for a long time (Case 2008). Despite lacking representative institutions, the city-state has maintained freedom of speech and assembly, rule of law, judicial independence, as well as the checks-and-balances that are supposed to constrain government.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Political Development in Hong Kong: The Failure of Democratization

Ortmann¹

2016

AISR

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Democratization in Hong Kong has come to a dead end following the rejection of an electoral reform proposal by the Legislative Council on June 18, 2015. The measure was voted down because pan-democrats had been deeply disappointed by the fact that the reform proposal by the Chinese government would have only allowed pre-screened candidates and thus denied Hong Kongers a true choice. This followed more than two months of street occupations in which protesters demanded real universal suffrage to no avail. This paper seeks to demonstrate how the “China factor” has inhibited the democratization process in four distinct phases of political development. Since World War II, one of the main reasons for the lack of democratization was opposition by the Chinese government. In the late 1980s, the prospect of political reforms in China raised hopes for political change in Hong Kong. This was, however, crushed in 1989, which empowered a democracy movement in Hong Kong. Since the transfer of power from Britain to China in 1997, despite protests for democracy, there has been very little progress toward meaningful democratization. Moreover, in recent years, there has even been a slow process from liberal to illiberal authoritarianism which is accompanied by growing conflicts and even violence as political freedoms are being curtailed.

show abstract

“…he pro-democracy movement in post-handover Hong Kong has long been an intense struggle between two contending forces: on the one hand, a hybrid regime buttressed by a dense network of local business elites and backed by its authoritarian principal, the People's Republic of China (Case 2008;Fong 2013); and on the other, a loosely-knitted network of pro-democracy parties and civic groups that promotes constitutional reforms, scrutinises the regime, and mobilises at critical times to disrupt unpopular government plans (Ma 2005;Cheng 2016). Since the early 2010s, however, a new political force, broadly known as the localists (bentupai 本土派), has emerged in the political domain.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Explaining Localism in Post-handover Hong Kong: An Eventful Approach

Yuen¹,

Chung²

2018

chinaperspectives

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The pro-democracy movement in post-handover Hong Kong had long been an intense struggle between the hybrid regime and prodemocracy civil society. Since the early 2010s, a new political force, broadly known as the localists, has entered the political domain through a series of protest events and elections. However, just as they gained a foothold in politics, the hybrid regime swiftly moved in to clamp down on the nascent movement to keep them out of the political system. What explains the ebbs and flows of Hong Kong's localist movement? This essay posits that localism is not an inevitable product of the macro-structural socio-political process, but an amalgam of ideas and action logics assembled sequentially through events and discursive constructions. We argue that localism first emerged through the interplay between antimainlandisation protests and both online and intellectual discourse, and officially ascended to the political stage after the Umbrella Movement. Despite their meteoric rise, localists' militant actions have allowed the hybrid regime to marginalise the nascent force through legal and non-legal repression, which has in turn created a "divided structure of contestation" among the opposition.

show abstract

Hybrid Politics and New Competitiveness: Hong Kong’s 2007 Chief Executive Election

Cited by 26 publications

References 21 publications

Selectorate Theory in Hybrid Regimes: Comparing Hong Kong and Singapore

Selectorate Theory in Hybrid Regimes: Comparing Hong Kong and Singapore

Political Development in Hong Kong: The Failure of Democratization

Explaining Localism in Post-handover Hong Kong: An Eventful Approach

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About