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Impact of cross-border integration with Mainland China on hong kong's local politics: the individual visit scheme as a double-edged sword for political trust in Hong Kong / Wong, Kevin Tze-wai; Zheng, Victor ; Wan, Po-san

Wan, Po-San	Journal Article
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Using official statistics and a pooled dataset of longitudinal surveys, the aim of this article is to examine the impact of the Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) on political trust in Hong Kong. Our multilevel analysis found that the gradual inflow of IVS visitors (mostly overnight visitors) increased political trust in the first few years, but that this trust rapidly diminished in later years, especially after the introduction of the one-year multiple-entry IVS endorsement (which attracted mostly same-day visitors). The main reason for the reduction in the positive impact of the IVS scheme is that the growth in the number of same-day visitors has contributed less to Hong Kong's economy than has the increase in the number of overnight visitors, and has exacerbated several social problems. The impact of mainland visitors has varied across groups with different levels of education. The political trust of people with a senior secondary education has been enhanced more by the increase in overnight visitors and reduced less by the increase in same-day visitors than that of people with a tertiary level of education or a junior secondary education or below.

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Hong Kong ; Regionalization ; Multilevel Analysis ; Political Trust ; Cross-Border Integration ; Individual Visit Scheme

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Public perceptions of income inequality in Hong Kong: trends, causes and implications / Wong, Timothy K Y; Wan, Po-San; Law, Kenneth W K

Wong, Timothy K Y	Journal Article
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2009.

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This article examines the patterns and changes in public perceptions of domestic income inequality in Hong Kong in the past two decades and explains individual variations in these perceptions. It found that the perceived seriousness of income disparities had been persistently high, while the perceived unjustness of income disparities showed a fluctuating trend. Our findings lent partial support to the structural position thesis that the privileged groups are less likely than the underprivileged groups to consider existing income disparities to be serious and unjust. Nonetheless, the popular understanding of poverty is still biased towards 'individual' explanations, and this perhaps explains why the government is less willing to tackle the economic and political foundations of poverty in Hong Kong.

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Economy ; Hong Kong ; Trends ; Public Perceptions ; Domestic Income

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