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Functional Constituencies
Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "appendices - notes."--CD-ROM label.
Power Transfer and Electoral Politics
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the election of the Hong Kong Legislative Council in May 1998, which was the first general election in Hong Kong since the change of sovereignty to China in 1997. The election was conducted in the wake of the government's mismanagement of health policy and other aspects of public concern and amid widespread hardships inflicted by the Asian financial crisis. Nevertheless, the election still had the highest turnout rate in Hong Kong's entire history. The elected legislature replaced the Provisional Legislative Council, which was a product of the Sino-British conflict before the change-over. However, as a result of institutional design and electoral ou...
A Legislature Comes of Age
While other British colonial legislatures were maturing into Western-style democratic institutions in the post-colonial era, Hong Kong's Legislative Council remained frozen in the contours of a bygone age. Members were fully appointed by and accountable to the British Crown, but not directly to the people of Hong Kong. Reforms that were introduced at a gradual pace between 1844 and 1984 did not alter the executive-dominated Council's fundamental limitations as a law-making body. In this first comprehensive study of Hong Kong's legislature, Dr. Kathleen Cheek-Milby analyses this unique case of arrested development, and maps the political changes that inspired the recent, rapid transformation ...
Constitutional Law in Hong Kong
Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this very useful analysis of constitutional law in Hong Kong provides essential information on the country’s sources of constitutional law, its form of government, and its administrative structure. Lawyers who handle transnational matters will appreciate the clarifications of particular terminology and its application. Throughout the book, the treatment emphasizes the specific points at which constitutional law affects the interpretation of legal rules and procedure. Thorough coverage by a local expert fully describes the political system, the historical background, the role of treaties, legislation, jurisprudence,...
The Hong Kong Basic Law
Analyses how China's socialist legal principles are incorporated into the Basic Law, and examines the conflicts in the drafting process between maintaining China's control and achieving genuine democracy and autonomy..
Contemporary Hong Kong Government and Politics
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.
Votes Without Power
This book attempts to answer the questions related to the important election on the basis of extensive survey research in Kowloon Central constituency. There are also chapters which examine the wider implications of the election for the political system, voting behaviour in four Catholic parishes, and the electoral administration system.
