Yu Keping, un politiste en Chine

Abstract

The article explores the complex interactions between science and politics in China. It contextualizes Yu Keping’s article “Which innovation we should foster and promote?” (2010) translated in the issue. Yu, a Chinese well-known scholar nationally and worldwide, supports gradual democratization while being very close to power, as former member of interesting research centers – the Central Translation and Compilation Bureau and the Center for Chinese Government Innovations. His scholarly work on local innovations, thus, provides a gateway into the understanding of Chinese political science’s recent history, the academic stance of a political scientist in China and the specificities of Chinese governance. It discusses the role local institutional innovations play in the national Chinese context, as models which may be promoted.

Keywords

• innovation
• government
• political science
• reform
• China