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Functional constituencies : a unique feature of the Hong Kong Legislative Council / edited by Christine Loh and Civic Exchange.

Title
Functional constituencies : a unique feature of the Hong Kong Legislative Council / edited by Christine Loh and Civic Exchange.
Publication
Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Loh, Christine.
  • Civic Exchange.
Description
xxii, 390 p. : ill.; 26 cm. +
Summary
Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "appendices - notes."--CD-ROM label.
Series Statement
Civic Exchange guides
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Hong Kong (China). Legislative Council > Elections
  • Hong Kong. Legislative Council > Elections
  • Since 1997
  • Elections > Hong Kong
  • Functional representation
  • Election law > Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong (China) > Politics and government > 1997-
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-390).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Christine Loh -- Government and business alliance: Hong Kong's functional constituencies / Christine Loh -- Business friendly and politically convenient - the historical role of functional constituencies / Leo F. Goodstadt -- Privileged to vote: inequalities and anomalies of the FC system / Simon N.M. Young and Anthony Law -- Elected by the elite: functional constituency legislators and elections / Simon N.M. Young -- The legal status of functional constituencies / Gladys Li and Nigel Kat -- Comparative profiles and attitudes of FC voters versus GC voters in the 2004 LegCo election campaign / Michael E. DeGolyer -- The dynamics of social policy making in Hong Kong: the role of functional representatives (1998-2004) / Rowena Y.F. Kwok and Chow Chiu Tak -- The contribution of the functional constituencies to economic policy in Hong Kong, 2000-2004 / Tony Latter -- Non-positive interventionism: how functional constituencies distort the free market / Jake van der Kamp and Carine Lai -- 'One person, one vote': the US electoral system and the functional constituencies / The Association of the Bar of the City of New York -- Functional constituencies: the way forward / Christine Loh.
ISBN
  • 9622097901 (pbk.)
  • 9789622097902 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2008555479
OCLC
  • 67874639
  • SCSB-10055760
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library