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The paper deals with the application of the methods of multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) in the area of the eGovernment development evaluation. eGovernment is one of the current priority trends of public administration modernization in the European Union both at the level of the governing bodies of the EU and the individual member states.It is a way to government transformation in sense of increasing of the availability, effectiveness, transparency and accountability and one of the possible options how to prov...

This paper examines the potential basis for the determination of a barometer to size democracy, a new instrument designed to measure the differences in the quality of democracies established for the East and North European Union countries. This new research instrument is based on a comprehensive concept of democracy, which includes three principles: freedom, equality and control, which are assured by nine functions: individual freedoms, the rule of law, public sphere, competition, mutual constraints, governmental ...

The research aims to explain the relationship between governance and welfare, analysing 20 countries, some of the richest and most developed countries in Europe, and some developing countries. The period analysed is 2002–2016. While the World Database of Happiness is the source for welfare data, for governance we used the Worldwide Governance Indicators from the World Bank. The latter ones are widely used as some of the best comparable international governance indicators, having perception-based measures from the ...