1. Introduction: A Relational Approach to Governing Wicked Problems
Part I A Relational Definition of Wicked Problems
2. Aren’t All Problems Wicked? Addressing the Constructive and Destructive Critiques of the Concept of Wicked Problems
3. From Categorical Distinctions of Policy Problems to a Relational Approach to Wicked Problems
4. From Governance Failure to Failure Governance: A Relational Approach to Governing Wicked Problems
Part II The History of the Present of the Theories of the Policy Process: From Self-Action to Trans-Action
5. A Genealogy of Self-Active Governance in Policy Theories
6. Problematizing Theoretical Understandings of Problems: From Self-actionalist to Inter-actionalist Approaches in Policy Sciences
7. The (Re)turn to the Political: Deepening the Grasp of Contingency in the Theories of the Policy Process
8. Speaking Truth to Power? The (Political) Constitution of Knowledgeand Rationality in Policy-Making and Governance
9. From De-Problematized Expert Knowledge to Politics of Critical Dialogue: Towards Process-Relational Policy Theories
Part III Theory and Practice of Failure Governance and Governance Failure
10. A Theory of Governance as Problematization and De-problematization
11. The Whole-of-Nation-Failure-Governance: Taiwan’s Politics of Problematization of COVID-19
12. Making America Do Their “Own Research” Again? Trump’s Politics of De-problematization of COVID-19
13. Germany’s Road from Failure Governance to Governance Failure
Part IV Concluding Remarks
14. In Place of Conclusions: Failing Better or Waiting for Godot in a Clumsy World of Wicked Problems?.