Party membership and social networks, as two forms of nonmarket power, have significant effects on personal income and act as driving forces of inequality in China. Do the effects vary across different ownership sectors (suoyouzhi xingshi)? Using a nationally representative survey of urban...

The author focuses on Communist Party-management relations in large and medium-scale Chinese industries since the early 1980s. Analysing these relations in the context of current economic and political reforms, he explores the major problems, the policies that have been pursued to resolve them,...