The communist revolution brought unprecedented changes to China. Yet there is no consensus on its role in the history … of China’s modern economic growth. We investigate whether local communist party membership affected developmental … outcomes from 1957–78 (the Maoist period) and 1978–85 (the reform period). Focusing on Sichuan, China’s most populous province …

common interest. In the empirical part of our paper we look at the case of China, where the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has …