Immediately following the post-protest imposition of the National Security Law in July 2020, the Hong Kong pro-democracy primaries were held, without official authorisation & amid police threats, to select pro-democracy candidates for the thence COVID-postponed LegCo election.
CASE
2020 Hong Kong pro-democracy primaries
HK PRIM.jpeg
– Credit: Rachel Wong for Hong Kong Free Press
| May 8, 2024 | ebc1n21 |
- Specific Topics
- Public Participation
- Political Parties
- Administration of Campaigns and Elections
- Start Date
- End Date
- Ongoing
- No
- Purpose/Goal
- Make, influence, or challenge decisions of government and public bodies
- Develop the civic capacities of individuals, communities, and/or civil society organizations
- Spectrum of Public Participation
- Empower
- Total Number of Participants
- 600000
- Open to All or Limited to Some?
- Open to All
- Recruitment Method for Limited Subset of Population
- Election
- Targeted Demographics
- Students
- Women
- Men
- General Types of Methods
- Informal participation
- Deliberative and dialogic process
- Protest
- General Types of Tools/Techniques
- Facilitate decision-making
- Recruit or select participants
- Propose and/or develop policies, ideas, and recommendations
- Specific Methods, Tools & Techniques
- Real Time Voting
- Experimentalist Democracy
- Practical Democracy
- Legality
- No
- Facilitators
- No
- Facilitator Training
- Untrained, Nonprofessional Facilitators
- Face-to-Face, Online, or Both
- Face-to-Face
- Types of Interaction Among Participants
- Express Opinions/Preferences Only
- Discussion, Dialogue, or Deliberation
- Information & Learning Resources
- Written Briefing Materials
- Decision Methods
- Voting
- If Voting
- Preferential Voting
- Plurality
- Communication of Insights & Outcomes
- New Media
- Independent Media
- Public Hearings/Meetings
- Type of Organizer/Manager
- Activist Network
- Individual
- Community Based Organization
- Funder
- Benny Tai and affiliates
- Type of Funder
- Activist Network
- Staff
- No
- Volunteers
- Yes
- Evidence of Impact
- Yes
- Implementers of Change
- Stakeholder Organizations
- Lay Public
- Formal Evaluation
- No