Membership has its privileges: The socioeconomic characteristics of communist party members in urban China

Comparative Political Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 87-112

  Dickson, Bruce J ^a   Rublee, Maria Rost ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0034423370     PISSN: 00104140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0010414000033001004     Document Type: Article

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