The concept of governance has substantially changed the concept of political decision and government. At the crossroads between processes of weakening democracy and democratic demands, governance concentrates the paradoxes of the exercise of democratic government in a more globalised world. Governance lays the foundations for controlled democratic consolidation at State level in accordance with the requirements of a certain degree of governance. However, the global governance benchmark indicates the democratic limits of a so-called “good practice” management in a liberalised world which severely lacks supranational institutions capable of building the trade-offs needed to combine social progress with individual freedoms.