2021年10月28日
Brian Wong
EJ Insight
Reforming district-level governance
Much has been said – perhaps too much – on the state of Hong Kong politics subsequent to the series of reforms rolled out last and this year.
A less investigated question, perhaps, concerns the prospects of district-level governance – i.e. the structures determining the day-to-day, municipal affairs that bear a more direct and substantial impact on a vast majority of Hong Kongers – than the "high politics" that rages on in the Legislative Council (and beyond).
District-level governance has not always been a prominent feature of Hong Kong's illustrious and complex political institutions. The colonial administration had largely counted upon the support from civilian-led associations – such as the Kaifong associations – and bureaucracy-overseen cooptation/coordination agencies – as a means of enacting "district-level" support and policies, till the conclusion of World War II. ...
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