Incrementalism

<i>In politics, the term "incrementalism" is also used as a synonym for <a href="/facts/Gradualism/VeFJBjLm">Gradualism</a>.</i>
<p>Incrementalism is a method of working by adding to or subtracting from a project using many small incremental changes instead of a few (extensively planned) large jumps. <a href="/facts/Logic/8JnpJLtt">Logical</a> incrementalism implies that the steps in the process are sensible. Logical incrementalism focuses on "the Power-Behavioral Approach to planning rather than to the Formal Systems Planning Approach". In public policy, incrementalism is the method of change by which many small policy changes are enacted over time in order to create a larger broad based policy change. Political scientist <a href="/facts/Charles_E._Lindblom/WSRMzKU2">Charles E. Lindblom</a> developed this theoretical policy of rationality in the 1950s as a middle way between the <a href="/facts/Rational_actor_model/NgEDuLBx">rational actor model</a> and <a href="/facts/Bounded_rationality/43sxWwHU">bounded rationality</a>, as both long term, goal-driven policy rationality and <a href="/facts/Satisficing/Bzcsq4l8">satisficing</a> were not seen as adequate.
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Incrementalism