Pathways into Political Party Membership:Case Studies of Hong Kong Youth

Authors

Hoi-Yu Ng, Hong Kong Institute of EducationFollow

Abstract

This article explores and conceptualizes the individual mobilization processes into political party membership of a sample of young people in Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous and semi-democratic region under Chinese sovereignty where political parties are relatively underdeveloped. Based on life history interviews with 23 young party members, I found that the mobilization of young people into party membership comprises three different steps. I also found that not all young party members went through the same order of steps. In total, three orders of steps are identified, which create three different paths into party membership. Lastly, this article found that each mobilization path is shaped by a specific set of macro-, meso-, and individual level influences

Keywords

Party Membership, Young People, Life History, Hong Kong, Mobilization

Author Bio(s)

Hoi-Yu Ng is a guest lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Institute of Education. Correspondence regarding this article can be addressed directly to: Hoi-Yu Ng at, ng.hoiyu@gmail.com.

Publication Date

9-28-2015

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

DOI

10.46743/2160-3715/2015.2314

Recommended APA Citation

Ng, H. (2015). Pathways into Political Party Membership:Case Studies of Hong Kong Youth. The Qualitative Report, 20(9), 1527-1545. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2015.2314