ABSTRACT
Policy balance theory questions the idea that all theories of policy thought could be balanced in physical and metaphysical terms. It has been reflected on and debated using the conceptual knowledge of “policy” balance. Policy is a multivariate activity engaged in by the State authority to intervene into conditions of imbalance and instability. The State has tried to change and shift en route to balancing positions and weights during its policy discourses and programming. In philosophy, the theoretical underpinnings of policy balance are rooted in the Confucian Mean and its heuristic-focused Timeliness; the Buddhist Madhyamika doctrine; and in Aristotle's Mean value of harmonized assimilation of time, object, and people. The intrinsic assumption of policy balance is the human learning ability to keep the balance that stems from inner tranquility and outer stability. If some imbalances in public policy becomes apparent, the balanced sense-making can proceed through adapting and shaping the changing policy activities of remaking, modifying, and making new policies. If so, the State policy can be balanced via the informed judgment and decisions, which are identified with the soft and hard knowledge examined in the policy causations.
