1 Introduction
Part I: Complexity, contingency and governance
2 The governance of complexity and the complexity of governance
3 Governance failure, metagovernance and its failure
4 Semantic, institutional and spatio-temporal fixes
Part II: Locating civil society as a mode of governance
5 Locating the WISERD Project: Public policy governance towards common good
6 Locating civil society in Marx and Gramsci
7 Locating civil society in Foucault
Part III: Governance failure and metagovernance
8 The multispatial governance of social and economic policy
9 The dynamics of economic and social partnerships and governance failure
10 Competitiveness vs civil society as modes of governance
11 Conclusions