What Does the Inglehart-Welzel Cultural Map Tell us about the Freedom of Hong Kong?
According to independent watchdog, Freedom House, Hong Kong’s press freedom score has been declining over the last 10 years, from #28 in 2005 to some #41 in 2015 (Freedom House, 2013). Some attribute this to the increasing constraints and restrictions on the local media (Lau, 2008) and some say that...
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2016
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| Online Access: | http://ur.aeu.edu.my/1035/1/ECON-141.pdf http://ur.aeu.edu.my/1035/ https://seajbel.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/ECON-141.pdf |
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| Summary: | According to independent watchdog, Freedom House, Hong Kong’s press freedom score has been declining over the last 10 years, from #28 in 2005 to some #41 in 2015 (Freedom House, 2013). Some attribute this to the increasing constraints and restrictions on the local media (Lau, 2008) and some say that it is because of the ‘rapidly narrowing’ space for free speech since the city was returned to China in 1997 (PEN America, 2016). The Hong Kong Journalists Association, in its 2014 Annual Report, described the situation as, ‘Press freedom under siege: Grave threats to freedom of expression in Hong Kong.’ The aim of this paper, therefore, is to review the freedom of Hong Kong with the help of Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel’s cultural
values for the last 20 years (obtained from the World Values Surveys). By qualitatively looking at previous landmark court cases and high profile rulings related to areas like the freedom of assembly, freedom of expression, and the right of abode, this review paper attempts to find out if the Inglehart-Welzel cultural values could help explain the current situation in Hong Kong and what insights, via this new perspective, could possibly be derived. |
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