The Limits of Policy Change: Incrementalism, Worldview, and the Rule of Law

by Michael T. Hayes

Book Overview

Michael Hayes offers a vigorous defense of incrementalism: the theory that the policymaking process typically should involve bargaining, delay, compromise, and, therefore, incremental change. Incrementalism, he argues, is one result of a checks-and-balances system in which politicians may disagree over what we want to achieve as a nation or what policies would best achieve shared goals.

Many political scientists have called for reforms that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878408355
• ISBN13: 9780878408351
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher