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Freedom of political association has been a hot topic in Hong Kong and Spain in the recent decade. Mark your diary to attend this POL seminar moderated by our Centre Director Prof Linda Li to get to know more about it!

Date: 21 February 2019 (Thursday)
Time: 4:00 - 5:30pm
Venue: B7516 POL Multi-purpose Room, Yeung Kin Man Academic Building, CityU

Title:
The limits of freedom of political association in Hong Kong and Spain.

Panelists:
LIN Feng (School of Law, City University of Hong Kong) & SERRANO MORENO Juan (Universidad Autónoma de Chile)

Moderator: LI Linda Chelan (Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong)

Abstract:
The recent ban on pro-independence claims in Hong Kong and in Spain needs to be introduced in the discussion of the current evolution democracy and rule of law. Even if these interdictions are highly controversial and may seem undemocratic, they are not exceptional. The protection of public institutions, national unity or national security had been considered legitimate motives to restrain the freedom of political association and participation in the past in different democratic countries. This seminar will analyze how and why the freedom of political association are concretely limited in China and Spain combining comparative constitutional law and political science approaches. In both countries the disqualification of election candidates and the prohibition of political parties are a result of nationalistic tensions between the central government and political actors from autonomous regions. However, the two cases differ substantially in form and substance.

In Hong Kong, the claims of self-determination or independence are considered a threat to the national unity that justifies the disqualification of candidates to run for election as stated by the Standing Committee of the National People´s Congress interpretation of the Basic Law in 2016. In Spain, the limitations are far more permissive. The pro-independence political parties based on Catalonia and Basque Country are active since the transition to democracy in late the 1970s. Nonetheless, in the early 2000s a new legal anti-terrorist strategy implemented by the central government led to the prohibition of radical Basque political parties. More recently, in 2018, a self-determination referendum organized by the Autonomous Region of Catalonia was declared illegal and by the Spanish causing an unprecedented political crisis. The comparison of the two cases will allow us to cool down the analysis of these highly controversial issues and explore the border between democracy and authoritarianism

Internship MOU agreement between POL Dept and the Service Quality Wing (SQW) of the Police Force.Dept of Head Prof Richa...
31/01/2019

Internship MOU agreement between POL Dept and the Service Quality Wing (SQW) of the Police Force.

Dept of Head Prof Richard Walker and Assistant Commissioner, Service Quality Mr Kent Chung signed the MOU. Mr Chung is a MAPPM Alumnus too.

Since 2013, twelve POL summer interns had worked in the SQW; two of them eventually become police inspector.

Pic source: Police Offbeat Magazine (Jan 29, 2019)

致候選人:要辯政必先研政 「在一場選舉辯論當中,如果論據不堅實、事實不準確,是很容易暴露出來。高水準的論壇是可以聽得出彼此的差別,然後背後的理據到底是什麼。但是,綜觀香港的選舉論壇,只有很少數的發言可以做到。」城市大學公共政策學系高級特任講...
26/11/2018

致候選人:要辯政必先研政
「在一場選舉辯論當中,如果論據不堅實、事實不準確,是很容易暴露出來。高水準的論壇是可以聽得出彼此的差別,然後背後的理據到底是什麼。但是,綜觀香港的選舉論壇,只有很少數的發言可以做到。」城市大學公共政策學系高級特任講師張楚勇觀察過英國的情況後,覺得香港的選舉論壇不值一哂:「我對香港自從有選舉以後的論壇基本上都很失望,如非必要,其實都不會看。」在他眼中,香港的選舉論壇只是淪為互相標籤的上綱上線之地,真正的政見碰撞卻無從講起。

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立法會九龍西補選結果出爐,不論是政治素人還是政壇元老,在選舉論壇中始終不能擺脫泥漿摔角式的口水戰。承接前文,香港選舉論壇發展至今亂象叢生,可謂是種種畸形制度造成的惡果:公平原則下催生了一批攪局式候選人...

Welcome everyone to our workshop themed Collaborative Intergovernmental Relationships to commemorate Dr. Wen Wang.为纪念已故好...
19/06/2018

Welcome everyone to our workshop themed Collaborative Intergovernmental Relationships to commemorate Dr. Wen Wang.
为纪念已故好友王闻、以collaborative intergovernmental relationships 为主题的工作坊,欢迎各界朋友光临指导。
Message from Dr He WANG

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11/05/2018

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中國為什麼要實施鄉村振興戰略?
Why does China Implement the Strategy of Rural Vitalization?

長期以來,我們一直飽受農業增效難、農民增收慢的痛苦折磨。歷屆黨中央,國務院高度重視「三農」問題,僅冠以年度「一號文件」形式下發的專門指導「三農」工作的紅頭文件前後高達二十個之多,其政策調子之高、涉及領域之廣、扶助力度之大、堅持時間之長,實屬前所未有。但「三農」問題並未從根本上得到解決,總體狀態上始終給人一種磕磕碰碰,徘徊不前的病殃殃的感覺,「三農」問題在不經意之間又捲土重來。中國特色社會主義新時代,如何從根本上解決「三農」問題,推進農業農村現代化?黨的十九大提出了實施鄉村振興戰略的偉大決策。宋亞平教授將對中國提出鄉村振興戰略的原因進行入理分析,發表獨特見解。

講者:宋亞平教授(湖北省社科院院長,華中師範大學政治學研究院教授、博士生導師)
日期:2018年5月28日(星期一)
時間:下午4:00至5:30
地點:香港城市大學楊建文學術樓4樓Y4302室
語言:普通話
報名:https://20180528-rural-china-vitalization.eventbrite.hk
主持:李芝蘭教授 (香港城市大學公共政策學系教授、香港持續發展研究中心總監)

歡迎所有人參加!

宋亞平教授
宋亞平教授曾先後任職於海南省洋浦經濟開發區、湖北省棗陽市、湖北省咸安區、湖北省委政研室等單位,其中於1999年至2003年任中國湖北省咸甯市咸安區委書記期間推行的咸安政改,被稱為「咸安模式」,因其廣泛影響於2008年當選「中國改革開放30年雲風雲人物」、「改革開放30年,影響湖北30人」。主要著作有《咸安政改──那場轟動全國倍受爭議的改革自述》(2009年),《中國縣制》(2013年)及《出路》(2014年)。

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