Beyond the 'Beijing Factor' : assessing the failure of civil society as a democratising agent in Hong Kong's democracy movement

• Main Author: Chen, Weijie
• Other Authors: Li Mingjiang
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science::Political institutions::Asia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/77116
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Since Samuel Huntington’s discussion of the third wave of democratisation in 1991, there has been a vast amount of scholarly literature written about democratic transition in various countries. The case of Hong Kong, however, remains a paradox in modernisation theory. Despite the presence of an acti...