This Master‘s final paper analyzes the Regional development governance in the context of civic society. The paper presents the results of theoretical and empirical surveys of Lithuanian and foreign scientists in the field of public participation in the regional development governance. To sustain the theoretical conclusions and to prove the hypothesis of this research work, there were questioned more than 700 people of Siauliai County. The first hypothesis of this research was confirmed partly, that it is not proper time to apply the governance from above (“bottom-up”) because of the specific Lithuanian postcommunist regimes. The second hypothesis was confirmed, that the estimations of the county’s population of the different fields of main sectors of Siauliai regional development were improved comparing the year of 2003 to 2005 because of the better economic development of the county during this period. The third hypothesis was confirmed partly, that the same estimations of all sectors mean that people are indifferent to the regional development governance.