Social Policy Under One Country, Two Systems: Institutional Dynamics in China and Hong Kong since 1997

摘要: Hong Kong's 1997 reversion to Chinese sovereignty brought two hitherto distinctive social policy systems into one country. As Kong is gradually assimilated China in the coming decades, will need identify elements of convergence. In this article, we argue those can be found parallel efforts curtail reach state, extend role market, enhance individual responsibility, and development a productivist orientation both societies. The societies remain strikingly different many ways, reflecting their diametrically opposed starting points. But reform trajectories appear pointing similar directions.