Titlebook: Incrementalism and Policymaking in the USA; Adaptations for a Pa Michael T. Hayes Book 2023 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)

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Incrementalism, Realism, and Idealism,and the limited knowledge base available to policymakers. Ideally, policymaking would be dominated by realists on both the left and the right. The chapter concludes by providing an outline of the book and identifying a recurring theme: policies should be understood as experiments from which we can learn.

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t‘incrementalism is both an inevitable and desirable method .This book examines incrementalism as a policymaking process in the USA. It provides an overview of incrementalism as a theoretical concept, assesses historical and contemporary attitudes toward it, and considers it as a viable alternative

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Partisan Incrementalism,tes by offering alternative programs of incremental (or decremental) policy initiatives. This chapter illustrates how partisan incrementalism can work by applying the concept to the struggle over the 1996 welfare reform.

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Incrementalism and Political Inequality,ot just incrementalism—and political inequality within the United States may be exaggerated. The most serious objection to incrementalism is not the small size of incremental steps but rather nondecision-making—the ability of powerful interests to take any action at all on many issues.

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Recapitulation and Implications,st become realists, rejecting not only idealism but also the emphasis on symbols over substance that has emerged in our social media age. Finally, while this volume has focused on the American context, partisan incrementalism should function especially well within first-past-the-post parliamentary systems featuring two strong parties.

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A Realist Case for Incrementalism,ents these problems, permitting the formulation of policies even where rationality breaks down. While single-step non-incremental policies are possible under exceptional circumstances, these major policy changes necessarily go beyond the available knowledge base. By contrast, non-incremental policy

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Partisan Incrementalism,of knowledge base. Fortunately, where parties are homogeneous internally and far apart ideologically, the range of disagreement over goals within each party should be narrow, transforming conflictual issues into pure problems of knowledge base within one or both parties. Parties could compete for vo