Where is the Love?

1. Where is the Love? Hong Kong’s search for a new direction under the next Chief Executive 14 February 2012

2. 1 Center, 2 Surveys 1. Centering on the election context & challenges facing Chief Executive candidates A. Random sample of the General Public Random sample of Functional Constituency Registered Voters Conducted first 2 weeks of January

3. Identity Feelings on China’s National Day The National Context of the Chief Executive Election

4. T:38 How does the celebration of 1st October National Day make you feel?

5. T:58 Feelings by Income/Class (GP/FC no significant difference)

6. Do you support/oppose the school children to sing National Anthem and have flag raising every day? From the October 2011 NDI survey

7. identity How would you describe yourself?

9. A Fundamental Shift?

10. T:60 Are you currently satisfied/dissatisfied with the performance of the Chinese Govin ruling China? (GenPub)

11. T:64 Proportion of Identities by Feelings on 1 Oct

12. T:68 Which do you consider most important to you personally to see protected &promoted?

13. T:69 Most important HK & China identity by Feelings on 1 Oct (GP)

14. T:71 Most important HK & China id by ID choices (GP)

15. satisfaction The Governance Context of Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Election

16. III/T:1 Are you currently satisfied/dissatisfied with performance of PRC Govdealing with HKSAR affairs?

17. III/T:7 Satisfaction with performance of SAR Government dealing with PRC Government FC: 51%Diss/43%Satisfied

18. III/T:12 Satisfaction with performance of PRC Govin ruling China FC: 53%Diss/38%Satisfied

19. III/T:17 Satisfaction with performance of HKSAR Gov FC: 60%Diss/37%Satisfied

20. Politics The Local Political Context of Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Election

21. IV/T:1 Of the political parties in Legco, which party if any do you feel represents or protects your interests best?

22. IV/T:2 Which party best represents, Recoded and Comparative Pro-Establishment: DAB, FTU, LP, NPP Pro-Democracy: DP, CivP Pro-Labour: LSD, PP, CTU

23. The voters & the public

24. The FC voters

25. Work Sector

26. EDucation

27. Income

28. Participation previous 6 months

29. IV/T:16 Vote for CE by Which party represents best General Public FC Voters

30. IV/T:19 If no pro-democracy candidate, then who by Which party represents best General Public FC Voters

31. Issues The Public Opinion Context of the Chief Executive Election

32. V/T:3 In your view, what is most urgent issue that should be addressed by candidates?

33. Issue Reclassifications • Unemployment, social welfare cuts, cross-border crime, influx of immigrants and wages and working hours are reclassified as socio-economic stress issues. • Systemic reform includes healthcare reform, educational reform, constitutional reform and environmental protection—all of which call for change. • The wealth gap, housing and economic growth and other categories are not reclassified

34. Age & FC/GP General Public FC Voters

35. V/T:9&10 Which candidate would vote for by Most urgent issues candidates should address FC Voters General Public

36. Systemic issues Fairness, Trust, Competence, Problem-solving

37. Fairness VI/T:1 Do you think the government currently makes policies in general fairly, helping or hurting all parties equally, or unfairly, favoring the interests of some over others?

38. VI/T:4 Fairness of policy making by Most urgent issues candidates should address (GP)

39. VI/T:6 Fairness of policy making by Which candidate would you vote for (GP) Those who would vote for Tang say by larger margins policy making is fair

40. trust VI/T:8 Who of the Chief Executive candidates do you trust most to handle relations with:

41. Competence VI/T:9 Which of the Chief Executive candidates do you think would do the best job of:

43. VI/T:19 Are you satisfied/dissatisfied with Gov’sperformance on this problem? (GP) Highest dissatisfaction since 2003

44. VI/T:20 Which CE candidate do you think would do the best job to improve gov’sperformance on your problem of greatest personal concern?

45. Constitutional REform The Issue that Dare Not Speak its Name

46. VII/T:6 Would you support/oppose the following: Change the CE nominating process to a popular primary system with the top 2 candidates competing in the direct election?

47. VII/T:8 Would you support or oppose the following: Reform FCs by eliminating corporate voting and equalizing, as much as possible, the number of voters in each constituency?

48. Table 10 Would you support or oppose the following: Abolish Functional Constituencies completely?

49. 601 General Public interviewees/246 Functional Constituency voters by random telephone survey Information of previous surveys on http://www.hktp.org Research conducted by the Hong Kong Transition Project funded by a grant from CDI http://www.cdiorg.hk

50. Hong Kong Transition Project • Established in 1988, headquartered at HKBU • Multi-disciplinary, multi-national, multi-institutional study on the transition from colonial to citizen rule • Academic, independent, pro-good governance • Funded by competitive research grants from governments, commissioned research from Non-governmental organizations. Two surveys commissioned annually by CDI • Members with partisan commitments do not participate in research in which they may have an interest nor see reports before public release. The P.I. is NOT a member of any party in Hong Kong but is an elected representative of the Higher Education sub-sector of the Chief Executive Election Committee, as part of the method of “participatory observation”