Bob Jessop is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University. He works on critical governance studies and welfare state restructuring and was previously involved in the WISERD Civil Society Research Centre.

• 1 IntroductionPart I: Complexity, contingency and governance2 The governance of complexity and the complexity of governance3 Governance failure, metagovernance and its failure 4 Semantic, institutional and spatio-temporal fixes Part II: Locating civil society as a mode of governance5 Locating the WISERD Project: Public policy governance towards common good6 Locating civil society in Marx and Gramsci 7 Locating civil society in Foucault Part III: Governance failure and metagovernance8 The multispatial governance of social and economic policy 9 The dynamics of economic and social partnerships and governance failure10 Competitiveness vs civil society as modes of governance 11 Conclusions

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