Communitarian Policymaking and Balance in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

In the course of any historical era, policymaking is governed by social, technological and developmentalist formations. As science and technology face paradigmatic changes during different historical eras, public and strategic policymaking is on the threshold of entering a new technological order influenced by such issues as balance, equilibrium and software act. Whenever the technological revolution emerges, the nature and public policies of the government undergo fundamental changes. The main question raised by the present paper is, “What are the signs and functions of policymaking in the Fourth Industrial Revolution?” The hypothesis of this paper emphasizes that “policymaking of the Fourth Industrial Revolution adopts a software, communitarian, balancing and equilibrium making approach toward managing newly emerging crises.” Each of the foregoing concepts and signs is considered as part of the nature and function of policymaking in the emerging technological era. The data analysis and content analysis methodology was used in compiling this paper. For the purpose of delineating the policymaking indices in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the author benefited from the “digital and structural transformation approach” of such theoreticians as Schwab. The findings discussed in the paper indicate that, firstly, the mechanisms of the welfare government and the communitarian government are regarded as the main axes of policymaking of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Secondly, such signs of communitarian, balancing and equilibrium acts leave their impact on effective and constructive governance.