The goal of this research is not to suggest the conditions in which governments should reach progress in the following years of the 21st century. The social contract is an extensive idea, and it covers different planes of everyday life, including economic, social, and political actions. Aspects of national and global society are also reviewed, along with the legal rules and social values. The discussion on the social contract appears to be most active in times of economic, social, or political upheaval. Besides, the social contract discussion has become more present because a shift has characterised this century to technological and global perspectives since the beginning. Furthermore, the 2008 financial crisis fuelled market structure and public changes. In this research, we focus on the aspects that highlight the social contract role in the community and individual life.
The paper explores the citizens’ pressures on governments in a world under change with very high expectations for the future. These tensions were analysed starting from one relevant question for current and future governments: Are national governments ready to meet this century’s individual and community requirements? The old social order is restructured in a world tested by the fast technological advance and the health, social, political and military crises. The world is moving, and all the relations are reshaped, the formal and informal. An agile government can quickly make any changes while it delivers old services and builds new ones. The old governmental structures and services are under profound pressure.