Ngok Ma

MA Ngok (PhD, University of California at Los Angeles) is Associate Professor of the Department of Government and Public Administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has researched and written extensively on Hong Kong politics throughout the years. His research areas include party politics and elections in Hong Kong, social movements and state-society relations in Hong Kong, comparative politics, and democratization. He has written or edited nine books, more than 25 journal articles and 30 book chapters on Hong Kong politics. He is the author of Political Development in Hong Kong: State, Political Society and Civil Society (Hong Kong University Press, 2007). He has published in Journal of Democracy, The China Quarterly, Economy and Society, Asian Survey, Journal of Contemporary Asia, and Journal of Contemporary China. He is the Principal Investigator of Asian Barometers Survey for Hong Kong, the largest cross-national survey on political values, democracy and governance in Asia. In the past 20-plus years, he was a regular contributor of commentaries to local newspapers and magazines and his expert views on Hong Kong politics have been actively sought by the local and international media. He served as the Head of the Department from 2014 to 2016.