caa a22 4500 469101687 CHVBK 20180323133046.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00138785 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00138785 Reframing incrementalism: A constructive response to the critics [Elektronische Daten] [Andrew Weiss, Edward Woodhouse] The concept of incrementalism has been widely cited over the past three decades, yet it has not served as the basis for a cumulatively developing line of empirical and theoretical inquiry. As a result, the highly promising incrementalist framework has contributed surprisingly little to improving our understanding of how decision-making processes can better adapt to humans' cognitive limitations. One indicator of the lack of progress is that policy scholars have never made a sustained attempt to explain how practitioners can become better incrementalists. To see whether the concept's original formulation may be obscuring the way to further progress, we summarize and appraise four enduring criticisms of incrementalism: its alleged lack of goal orientation, conservatism, limited range of applicability, and negative stance toward analysis. While questioning the validity of the critics' claims, we nevertheless propose a way to reframe the incrementalist endeavor, with the intention of stimulating both its critics and defenders to get on with the task of learning more about how individuals, organizations, and societies can proceed relatively intelligently despite the fact that humans rarely have a good understanding of complex social problems and policy options. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 Weiss Andrew Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, 12180-3590, NY, USA aut Woodhouse Edward Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, 12180-3590, NY, USA aut Policy Sciences Kluwer Academic Publishers 25/3(1992-08-01), 255-273 0032-2687 25:3<255 1992 25 11077 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00138785 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00138785 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Weiss Andrew Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, 12180-3590, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Woodhouse Edward Department of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, 12180-3590, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Policy Sciences Kluwer Academic Publishers 25/3(1992-08-01), 255-273 0032-2687 25:3<255 1992 25 11077 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer