POL 12000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Historical Institutionalism, Policy Analysis, Incrementalism
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Incremental approach to policy - policy research: policy analysis : study effectiveness. " policy process : study of how policy is created: policy process research : not interested in substance of policy or effectiveness. " theories : simplifications of reality historical institutionalism. Path dependent : policy is resistant to change once created. Longer life harder to change metric system. Imperial system is embedded in us culture and history incrementalism. Policy does not start from scratch : pre - existing conditions. Instead of increments , long period of status quo. Cautious about big change , minimize disruption. ^ design political system to make change hard. " critics argue that it can prevent us trying out effective policies: preserves bad policy. " prevents swift action the green new deal: opportunity to address climate change - not a bill. " too late for incremental change: onlygovernment can mobilize quickly enough, requires trillions of dollars in investments. Could cost gov"t a lot of money.
