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The work aims to conduct a critical assessment of two widely used concepts in contemporary regional studies: first is the notion of governance, and secondly the notion of scales. To this end, this paper investigates the most basic assumptions, even to the sense of action as a basic principle that mediates the relationship between individual and society. It was shown how these concepts have a high degree of dehistoricization assuming an indeterminate or contradictory character. This is also about the relationship between these concepts: It attempts to show how the concept of scale can be read as a reaction to the difficulties highlighted in the concept of governance. Paradoxically this «reaction» fails to overcome these difficulties because, by not reaching the founding principles of the approach, repeated its paradoxes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper consider the articulation of three perspectives: the regulation approach, the neo-Gramscian political school, and the critical discourse analysis, to study the links between the economic and the political in contemporary capitalism, particularly by examining the cultural and social embeddedness of market and state and their discursive, and the ways in which they are articulated both discursively and extra-discursively. These arguments are illustrated substantively by references to changes in the state form that has been centrally associated with Atlantic Fordism. It is shown how deeply regulationist and neo-Gramscian categories rest on assumptions, concepts, and explanatory principles rooted in cultural analysis. Taking into account the critical discourse analysis, it is considered the future of the capitalist economy and the national state, the governance, and its cultural and social embeddedness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]