Nonincremental Policy Making
Notes Toward an Alternative Paradigm
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3500765 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul R Schulman (University of Tennessee at Knoxville, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1354-1370 |
| Publication date | 1975-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1955293 |
| OpenAlex | W1966773450 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 46 |
| References cited | 31 |
Much of the literature of policy analysis and public administration is dominated by incremental and "divisible goods" paradigms. Policy is assumed to be a process of marginal and adjustive decision making in which benefits are dispensed piecemeal-proportionate to prevailing distributions of power or publicized need. This essay asserts the existence of a class of nonincremental, indivisible policy pursuits for which the analytical weaponry of political science is largely inappropriate. Such policies display a distinctive set of political and administrative characteristics. These characteristics are explained and examined in connection with manned space exploration policy. An assessment is offered of the challenges posed by nonincremental policy to contemporary outlooks in political science
Administration (probate law · Class (philosophy · Economics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Process (computing · Public economics · Public policy · Set (abstract data type · Space (punctuation) · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Computer Science · Economic Theory and Institutions · Law · Philosophy · Public Administration · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
Research, Evaluation, and Policy Analysis
The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning
Navigating the grey
Applying punctuated equilibrium theory to municipal and county operating and capital budgets
Making Space
It's the Budget, Stupid
The Reagan Election and Mandate
From Rhetoric to Blueprint
Presidential‐Congressional Budget Agreement, 1949–1995
Policy Changes on Canada's Rivers
Effects of regulatory uncertainty on corporate strategy—an analysis of firms’ responses to uncertainty about post-Kyoto policy
Half a century of “muddling”
Charles Lindblom is alive and well and living in punctuated equilibrium land
Big” Theories and Policy Counsel
Funny Evidence
From multiple streams to a torrent
Solving Real-Life Problems of Practice and Education Leaders’ School Improvement Mind-Set
Managing Organizational Retrenchament
Budgetary Politics and Decision-Making
Views through a Kaleidoscope
Policy Arenas and Budgetary Politics
Can Government Information Systems Be Inflexible Technology? The Operational Strategy Revisited
Policy punctuations in the UK
Reframing incrementalism
Theories of budgetary decisionmaking and revenue decline
Explaining the Variable Utility of Disjointed Incrementalism
Decision-Making at the Top of Organizations
Nonincremental Policy Change
Determinants of Public Policy
Passing Nonincremental Policy
Organizing for Policy Innovation in Public Bureaucracy
Explaining Incremental and Non-Incremental Change
The Tortoise or the Hare? Incrementalism, Punctuations, and Their Consequences
Importing Concepts from Biology into Political Science
Whither Are We Bound? New Insights on American Economic Policymaking
Potential Focusing Projects and Policy Change
Punctuated Equilibria and Budgets in the American States
Corrective policy reactions
The Comparative Policy Agendas Project
Anticipating Uncertainty
On democratic intelligence and failure
Unforeseen consequences and pathological self‐reinforcement
Measuring Public Policy
A Paradigm of ‘Crisis’ Decision Making
Presidential Vision or Congressional Derision? Explaining Budgeting Outcomes for Nasa, 1958–2008
A Model of Muddling Through
Politics, economics, and welfare
The end of liberalism
A preface to urban economics.
The symbolic uses of politics
The intelligence of democracy
A Strategy of Decision
Little Science, Big Science
The Calculus of Consent
The Political Economy of Change
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Urban Problems and Prospects
This New Ocean
Ethnocentrism and Space Superiority Judgments Following Cosmonaut and Astronaut Flights
Public Opinion and the Development of Space Technology
The Beginning of the Space Age and American Public Opinion
"The Science of "Muddling Through
Muddling Through-"Science" or Inertia
Power and Administration
Organization and Innovation
This New Ocean
| Unique citing works | 46 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,94 |
| Citation span | 1977 - 2026 (50) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 45 |