This publication increases attention-grabbing questions on the method of democratization in Hong Kong. It asks why democracy has been see you later not on time whilst Hong Kong's point of socio-economic improvement has develop into so excessive. It relates democratization in Hong Kong to wider reports of the democratization technique in different places, and it vitamins the acquired knowledge - that democracy was once behind schedule due to colonial rule and through the competition of China - with new pondering, for instance, that its quasi-bureaucratic authoritarian political constitution vested strength in bureaucrats who refused to have top-down democratization; a politically susceptible civil society and a non-participant political tradition that crippled bottom-up democratization; plus the department among pro-democratic civil society and political society.