Exploring the Dynamics of Covid Policy and Transformation of Values as Bricolage Politics

The challenges of digital disruption to democratic institutions and governance constitute a major concern for various strands of social scientific research grappling with the ambiguously lucid relationship between social, technological and political change. One of the overarching factors of this relationship concerns the transformation of values in relation to the constantly evolving communication technologies, and the accelerating pace at which they are growing more personal, social, and interactive. The clarifying of these properties of value change are used to clarify bricolage politics as a conceptual tool to cast a light on emerging dilemmas of sync between public preferences and policy on pressing global issues such as Covid-19 with widening perceptions of political realities and legitimacy. The aim of such a conceptual platform is to provide an analytical intermediary map for further studies of the (dis)connection between public preferences and policy along with the apparent dilemmas of sync, which seem all too evident in the present light of climate change, migration and pandemics crises.