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Functional constituencies : a unique feature of the Hong Kong Legislative Council
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- Summary
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Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "appendices - notes."--CD-ROM label.
Details
- Creator
- edited by Christine Loh and Civic Exchange
- Included Title
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- JSTOR ebooks
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; [London] : [Eurospan, distributor], ©2006
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xxii, 390 pages) : illustrations
- ISBNs
- 9789882203693, 9786612707438, 9781282707436, 6612707437, 9622097901, 9882203698, 1282707434, 9789622097902
- OCLC
- ocn650826136
- Includes bibliographical references.
- English.
- CDROM Contents; Tables and figures; PREFACE; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 -- Government and business alliance:Hong Kong's functional constituencies; CHAPTER 2 -- Business friendly and politically convenient -- the historical role of functional constituencies; CHAPTER 3 -- Privileged to vote: Inequalities and anomalies of the FC system; CHAPTER 4 -- Elected by the elite: Functional constituency legislators and elections; CHAPTER 5 -- The legal status of functional constituencies
- CHAPTER 6 -- Comparative profiles and attitudes of FC voters versus GC voters in the 2004 LegCo election campaignCHAPTER 7 -- The dynamics of social policy making in Hong Kong: The role of functional representatives (1998-2004); CHAPTER 8 -- The contribution of the functional constituencies to economic policy in Hong Kong, 2000-2004; CHAPTER 9 -- Non-positive interventionism:How functional constituencies distort the free market; CHAPTER 10 -- 'One person, one vote': The US electoral system and the functional constituencies; CONCLUSION Functional constituencies:The way forward