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Notes Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Article 3 (2) of the Joint Declaration of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the People’s Republic of China on the Question of Hong Kong, in Ian Scott, Political Change and the Crisis of Legitimacy in Hong Kong (Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 1989), p. 353; and Article 2 of The Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (Hong Kong: Joint Publishing [H.K.] Co. Ltd., 1991), p. 5. 2 Steve Tsang, ed. A Documentary History of Hong Kong: Government and Politics (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1995) pp. 19–30. 3 Colonial Regulations 1935, amended 1945 (London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1945), Regulation 105. 4 Lennox A. Mills, British Rule in Eastern Asia (London: Oxford University Press, 1942), pp. 391–92. 5 Norman Miners, Hong Kong Under Imperial Rule 1912–1941 (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1987), pp. 50–51 and p. 109. 6 J. M. H. Lee, Colonial Development and Good Government (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967), p. 72. 7 See Miners, op. cit., pp. 50 and 284; Mills, op. cit., pp. 392 and 397; and Lee, op. cit., pp. 55, 60, 73 and 220. 8 Royal Instructions 29 and 3 in Tsang, op. cit., pp. 27 and 23 respectively and Letters Patent in ibid., p. 19. 9 Sir Cosmo Parkinson, The Colonial Office from Within, 1900–1945 (London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1946), p. 139; Mills, op. cit., p. 397. 10 Scott, op. cit., p. 324. 11 Leo Goodstadt, Uneasy Partners: The Conflict between Public Interest and Private Profit in Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005), p. 49. 12 See, for example, Hurst Hannum and Richard B. Lillich, “The Concept of Autonomy in International Law”, The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 74, No. 4, (1980), pp. 858–89; G. L. Clark, “A Theory of Local Autonomy”, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 74, No. 2 (June 1984), pp. 195–208; H. Wolman and M. Goldsmith, “Local Autonomy as a Meaningful Concept”, Urban Affairs Review, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Sep 1990), p. 3; Zeng Huaqun, “Hong Kong’s Autonomy: Concept, Development and Characteristics”, China: An International Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2 (September 2003), p. 315; and J. Richardson, “Dillon’s Rule Is from Mars, Home Rule Is from Venus: Local Government Autonomy and the Rules of Statutory Construction”, Publius, Vol. 41, No. 4 (2011), pp. 662–85. 13 Gordon L. Clark, op. cit., pp. 198–201. 14 H. Wolman and M. Goldsmith, op. cit., pp. 3–17, quoted in G. A. Boyne, “Central Policies and Local Autonomy: The Case of Wales”, Urban Studies, Vol. 30, No. 1 (1993), pp. 87–101. 15 H. Wolman, R. McManmom, M. Bell and D. Brunori, “Comparing Local Government across States”, in M. E. Bell, D. Brunori and J. Youngman, The Property Tax and Local Autonomy (Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy); quoted in J. Richardson, “Dillon’s Rule Is from Mars, Home Rule Is from Venus: Local Government Autonomy and the Rules of Statutory Construction”, Publius, Vol. 41, No. 4, (2011), pp. 662–85. 16 Miners, op. cit., p. 74. 17 Daniel P. Carpenter, The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001). 18 Ibid., pp. 4–21. 19 Ibid., pp. 5 and 14. 20 Herbert Kaufman, The Administrative Behavior of Federal Bureau Chiefs (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1981), pp. 161–74; James Q. Wilson, Bureaucracy (New York: Basic Books, 1989), pp. 183 and 227; and Carpenter, op. cit., Chapter 3. 21 For the difficulties faced by the British government in trying to persuade colonial service officers to innovate and plan and promote development in the colonies see Lee, op. cit., pp. 35–39; J. M. Lee and Martin Petter, The Colonial Office, War and Development Policy (London: University of London, for the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 1982), pp. 170–72; D. J. Morgan, The Official History of Colonial Development, Vol. 1, The Origins of British Aid Policy, 1924–1945 (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1980), pp. 183–84. 22 Mills, op. cit., pp. vii–viii. 23 Parkinson, op. cit., Chapter 6, pp. 136–54. 24 G. B. Endacott, Government and People in Hong Kong, 1841–1962 (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1964). See particularly Chapters XIV and XV. 25 Steve Tsang, A Modern History of Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University...