The governance concept, successfully applied to public organisations has its roots in
regime theory from international relations. The path that international relations scholars
have taken in the development of regime theory serves as a useful guide for the
development of governance theory in public administration . The international regimes
can be defined as bureaucratic regimes, patterns of cooperation between jurisdictions
conducted by appointed officials, almost always in specific policy domains.
The governance concept and its good governance rules: openness, participation,
accountability, effectiveness, coherence are successfully implemented at the level of
international institutions (for example the European Union). There are also advanced
attemps to implement it at the state level. The idea of adaptation of governance rules to
the level of territorial authorities to be very promising, but the research projects in this
domains are very needed
