During the latest decades, the evaluation of governance performance has become a major concern both for national and international specialised institutions. Simultaneously, the evaluation tools have diversified continuously incorporating methods and techniques from multiple fields related to governance. The current publication reveals a few of the authors' preoccupations concerning the evaluation of local or national governance performance, approached in a socio-systemic and statistical connection with adjacent processes, influencing decisively the governmental performance. The theoretical,...

The publication represents a significant introduction to a new approach for the phenomena and processes of public administration, referring to administrative emergence, Europeanization, convergence, meritocracy and governance quality. The paper is divided into six chapters maintaining a balance between the theoretical, conceptual and socio-empirical analysis. According to the subject, the three parts address the conceptualization and development of emerging administrations and the comparative study of three countries of South-Eastern Europe, which also includes Romania. The pronounced...