Social Irrelevance of Politics
Hong Kong Chinese Attitudes Toward Political Leadership
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2893371 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lau Siu-Kai, Lau Siu‐kai (Chinese University of Hong Kong, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 225 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pacific Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-851X • E-ISSN: 1715-3379 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2760170 |
| OpenAlex | W2314029010 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
N THE EVE of 1997, when China will resume sovereignty over the territory, Hong Kong still suffers from the lack of trusted political leaders. The reasons for this sorry state of affairs are legion. Elsewhere I have analyzed Hong Kong Chinese views of political leadership' and the structuralhistorical factors which impede the rise of strong political leaders.2 In this paper, the ways social irrelevance of politics hamper the emergence of trusted political leaders and the formation of political groups with strong social support bases will be explored. The focus of the study is the Hong Kong Chinese's perception of the relevance of the major institutions, individuals and groups, which constitute the political leadership of the territory, to the major issues that concern them. It was found that while the Hong Kong Chinese were able to vaguely detect the major dimensions of political conflict among the leadership components, they failed to see the relevance of political conflict to the major social and economic issues of Hong Kong, which were given a higher order of importance by the public than by the leadership. Furthermore, they had some difficulty differentiating between the leadership in political terms and an almost total inability to distinguish between leaders in social and economic terms. Such a state of affairs is obviously not conducive to the development of public trust in the emergent political leaders and political groups. Most of the statistical findings reported in this study come from a questionnaire survey of a Hong Kong-wide sample
Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Social Capital and Networks
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2026 (34) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |