This research explores the political factors that determined the spatial variations of the private economic development of Zhejiang province in China after 1949. I argue that even in an authoritarian country, when political elites are divided into competing groups and there are fierce political...

A government’s state capacity strength has a bearing on not only how much revenue it can extract but also on how it extracts revenues. Based on China’s local economic development experience since the 1990s, we draw on two unique household survey datasets to measure county-level local state...