Abstract Measurement of Governance Capacity: Concept, ‎Modeling and Evaluation Ali Asghar Fani1, SeyedYaghoub Hosseini2, Hassan Danaeifard3,‎ Asghar Moshabaki4‎ ‎1-‎ ‎ Assistant Professor, Faculty of Management & Economics, Tarbiat Modares University, ‎Tehran, Iran ‎2-‎ ‎ Ph.D. Student, Faculty of Management & Economics, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, ‎Iran ‎3-‎ ‎ Associate Professor, Faculty of Management & Economics, Tarbiat Modares University, ‎Tehran, Iran ‎4-‎ ‎ Associate Professor, Faculty of Management & Economics, Tarbiat Modares University, ‎Tehran, Iran Received: 17 /7/2010 Accept: 18/10/2010‎ Government capacity and governance capacity are the new concepts that ‎have recently entered the literature of state management and political ‎science. The existing literature in this ground is neither comprehensive nor ‎homogeneous. This article intends to study different dimensions of capacity ‎and, based on the findings, introduce a model for examining it.‎ Governance capacity is manifested in such dimensions as the capacity of ‎a state in designing, implementing and assessing policies and super policies. ‎The innovative point in this article is the introduction of a model on ‎governance capacity, which has not been done in the previous researches. In ‎the past studies, based on the context of the related study, scholars have had ‎a micro view on the governance subject, and no comprehensive view to ‎include all dimensions of governance has been considered. This inadequacy ‎is removed by the outcomes of the present article.‎ This article consists of two parts. The first part includes the review of ‎theoretical literature about governance capacity and theoretical fundamentals ‎of the concept. The second part introduces a model, which has been ‎examined by the data collected from different countries.‎