Interest Groups and the New Democracy Movement in Hong Kong

Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781134988983
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Asian American Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

A new era in the democracy movement in Hong Kong began on July 1, 2003, when half a million people protested on the streets, and has included the 2012 anti-National Education campaign, the 2014 Occupy Central Movement and the rapid rise of localist groups. The new democracy movement in Hong Kong is characterized by a diversity of interest groups calling for political reform, policy change and the territory's autonomy vis-à-vis the central government in Beijing. These groups include lawyers, teachers, students, nativists, workers, Catholics, human rights activists, environmental activists and intellectuals.

This book marks a new attempt at understanding the activities of the various interest groups in their quest for democratic participation, governmental responsiveness and openness. They are utilizing new and unconventional modes of political participation, such as the Occupy Central Movement, cross-class mobilization, the use of technology and cyberspace, and human rights activities with cross-boundary implications for China's political development.

The book will be useful to students, researchers, officials, diplomats and journalists interested in the political change of Hong Kong and the implications for mainland China.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgments
• List of abbreviations
• 1 Interest groups, intellectuals and the new democracy movement in Hong Kong
• 2 Interest groups and the democracy movement in Hong Kong: a historical perspective
• 3 Lawyers as an interest group in Hong Kong’s democracy movement
• 4 Journalists as interest groups: implications for the democracy movement
• 5 The Professional Teachers’ Union as an interest group fighting for democracy
• 6 Workers as interest groups: are they fragmented and powerless?
• 7 Why are Hong Kong’s business interest groups anti-democratic?
• 8 The Hong Kong Catholic Church: endeavor in promoting democracy
• 9 The emergence of nativist groups and political change
• 10 Student and youth activism: the new youth groups in anti-National Education policy and Occupy Central Movement
• 11 Environmental governance and the rise of the environmental movement in Hong Kong
• 12 Political interest groups and democratization: the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China
• 13 Conclusion: the new democracy movement, interest groups politics and implications for China
• Bibliography
• Index