The rise and decline of political support for the Hong Kong special administrative region government

Government and Opposition

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 352-371

  Lau, Siu Kai ^a  

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EID: 0039756651     PISSN: 0017257X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-7053.1999.tb00486.x     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. See Lau Siu-kai, 'Democratization and Decline of Trust in Public Institutions in Hong Kong', Democratization, 3:2 (Summer 1996), pp. 158-80.
2. The sample (N = 1,410) used in the questionnaire survey was drawn by means of a multi-stage design. The target population of the survey were the Chinese inhabitants of Hong Kong aged 18 years or over. Fieldwork was conducted mostly from 7 May to 30 June 1997. By then 90.5 per cent of the successful interviews were completed, while the rest of the interviews were carried out from 2 July to 9 September 1997. At the end of the survey, 701 interviews were successfully completed, yielding a response rate of 49.7 per cent.
3. See Lau Siu-kai and Kuan Hsin-chi, 'Public Attitudes toward Political Authorities and Colonial Legitimacy in Hong Kong', The Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 33:1 (March 1995), p. 81.
4. Slightly over half (53.4 per cent) of the respondents expressed confidence in Hong Kong's future, as against 11.1 per cent who had no confidence. About one-third (32.1 per cent) were betwixt and between.
5. The 400-member Election Committee, which elected the Chief Executive, was also the body which elected the Provisional Legislative Council.
6. See for example speech by Tung Chee Hwa, 'Building a 21st Century Hong Kong Together' (22 October 1996), pp. 5 and 10; and C. H. Tung, 'A Future of Excellence and Prosperity for All', speech by the Chief Executive at the Ceremony to celebrate the Establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, 1 July 1997, Hong Kong, HKSAR Government, 1997, p. 18.
7. See for example speech by Tung Chee Hwa, 'Building a 21st Century Hong Kong Together' (22 October 1996), pp. 5 and 10; and C. H. Tung, 'A Future of Excellence and Prosperity for All', speech by the Chief Executive at the Ceremony to celebrate the Establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, 1 July 1997, Hong Kong, HKSAR Government, 1997, p. 18.
8. Lau Siu-kai and Kuan Hsin-chi, The Ethos of the Hong Kong Chinese, Hong Kong, Chinese University Press, 1988.
9. Lau Siu-kai, 'The Fraying of the Socio-economic Fabric of Hong Kong', The Pacific Review, 10:3 (1997), pp. 426-41.
10. See Lau and Kuan, 'Public Attitudes toward Political Authorities'.
11. Muthiah Alagappa, 'Introduction', in M. Alagappa (ed.), Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia: The Quest for Moral Authority, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1995, p. 22.
12. Apple Daily, 6 April 1998, p. A12.
13. Ibid., 27 July 1998, p. A2; 5 October 1998, p. A6; and 1 February 1999, p. A16.
14. Ibid., 27 July 1998, p. A2; 5 October 1998, p. A6; and 1 February 1999, p. A16.
15. Ibid., 27 July 1998, p. A2; 5 October 1998, p. A6; and 1 February 1999, p. A16.
16. Home Affairs Department, Report on a Telephone Opinion Poll in January 1999, Hong Kong, Home Affairs Department, 1999, p. 25.
17. Cho-oon Khong, 'Singapore: Political Legitimacy Through Managing Conformity', in M. Alagappa (ed.), Political Legitimacy, p. 112.
18. Ibid., pp. 113-14.