Contextualizing Occupy Central In Contemporary Hong Kong - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contextualizing Occupy Central In Contemporary Hong Kong write by Tai Wei Lim. This book was released on 2015-03-27. Contextualizing Occupy Central In Contemporary Hong Kong available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the past 18 years, after the handover of the former British colony Hong Kong to China, Beijing and the Special Administration Region (SAR) have been trying to work out a mutually beneficial relationship based on pragmatism and a focus on economic prosperity. The Occupy Central with Love and Peace in Hong Kong (September to December 2014) movement represents a significant event in Hong Kong's history of public advocacy for change by pro-democracy residents. It is viewed differently by various groups within Hong Kong, including eliciting counter-reactions from an opposing movement.To contextualize the current discussions, the authors have identified three phases of the movement; and included a historical anatomy of Hong Kong's quest to reach an equilibrium between status quo and changes advocated through its social movements. Though the account does not pretend to be comprehensive, it distils the most significant events in each of the three stages of the movement. Centrist, moderate, and conservative views on Occupy Central, as well as the liberal and progressive positions on the movement are discussed and analyzed in the book.
The Occupy Movement in Hong Kong
The Occupy Movement in Hong Kong - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Occupy Movement in Hong Kong write by Yongshun Cai. This book was released on 2016-08-12. The Occupy Movement in Hong Kong available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Occupy movement in Hong Kong was sustained for about 80 days because of government tolerance, the presence of determined participants, and a weak leadership. The government tolerated the occupation because its initial use of force, in particular teargas, was counterproductive and provoked large-scale participation. Unlike other social movements, such as the 1989 Tiananmen movement, the Occupy movement reached its peak of participation at the very beginning, making it difficult to sustain the momentum. The presence of determined participants who chose to stay until the government responded was crucial to the sustaining of the movement. These self-selected participants were caught in a dilemma between fruitless occupation and reluctance to retreat without a success. The movement lasted also because the weak leadership was unable to force the government to concede or devise approaches for making a "graceful exit." Consequently, site clearance became the common choice of both the government and the protestors. This book develops a new framework to explain the sustaining of decentralized protest in the absence of strong movement organizations and leadership. Sustained protests are worth research because they not only reveal the broad social context in which the protests arise and persist but also point out the dynamics of the escalation or the decline of the protests. In addition, sustained protest may not only lead to more dramatic action, but they also result in the diffusion of protests or lead to significant policy changes.
Hybrid Constitutionalism
Hybrid Constitutionalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hybrid Constitutionalism write by Eric C. Ip. This book was released on 2019-04-25. Hybrid Constitutionalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first book that focuses on the entrenched, fundamental divergence between the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal and Macau's Tribunal de Última Instância over their constitutional jurisprudence, with the former repeatedly invalidating unconstitutional legislation with finality and the latter having never challenged the constitutionality of legislation at all. This divergence is all the more remarkable when considered in the light of the fact that the two Regions, commonly subject to oversight by China's authoritarian Party-state, possess constitutional frameworks that are nearly identical; feature similar hybrid regimes; and share a lot in history, ethnicity, culture, and language. Informed by political science and economics, this book breaks new ground by locating the cause of this anomaly, studied within the universe of authoritarian constitutionalism, not in the common law-civil law differences between these two former European dependencies, but the disparate levels of political transaction costs therein.
Occupy Central and the Silent Majority in Hong Kong
Occupy Central and the Silent Majority in Hong Kong - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Occupy Central and the Silent Majority in Hong Kong write by . This book was released on 2015. Occupy Central and the Silent Majority in Hong Kong available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
European Yearbook of Constitutional Law 2020
European Yearbook of Constitutional Law 2020 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook European Yearbook of Constitutional Law 2020 write by Ernst Hirsch Ballin. This book was released on 2021-03-27. European Yearbook of Constitutional Law 2020 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The European Yearbook of Constitutional Law (EYCL) is an annual publication devoted to the study of constitutional law. It aims to provide a forum for in-depth analysis and discussion of new developments in the field, both in Europe and beyond. This second volume examines the constitutional positioning of cities across space and time. Unrelenting urbanisation means that most people are, or soon will be, living in cities and that city administrations become, in many respects, their quintessential governing units. Cities are places where State power is operationalised and concretised; where laws and government policies transform from parchment objectives to practical realities. In a similar vein, cities are also places for the realisation of the constitutional rights and liberties enjoyed by individuals. The book is organised around three sets of relations that await further unpacking in theory as well as practice: that between cities and other institutions in the national constitutional architecture; that between cities and their inhabitants; and that between cities and international organisations. The contributions to this book show the marked diversity in the role and powers available to cities in Europe and beyond, and identify principles and approaches to help stipulate new ways of thinking about the legal role and relevance of cities going forward. Ernst Hirsch Ballin is distinguished university professor at Tilburg University and vice-dean for research of Tilburg Law School. Gerhard van der Schyff is associate professor at Tilburg Law School, Department of Public Law and Governance. Maarten Stremler is lecturer at Maastricht University, Faculty of Law, Department of Public Law. Maartje De Visser is associate professor at SMU School of Law, Singapore.
