Demandes sociales, gouvernance et médiation intellectuelle en Chine postmaoïste

is paper highlights how much the notion of governmental innovation is closely related to the idea of incremental transformation of the political system and to the strengthening of the Party-state’s capacity to govern as well as to its legitimacy. The focus is also put on the relevance of the institutional genre of expression and to the use by the political scientist Yu Keping to highly recurrent modes of formulation that firstly stress the achievements in the Party-state’s endeavours to improve governance in order secondly to put forward functional improvements to the governing mechanisms.