[citation needed] Even in processes that involve more extensive planning, incrementalism is often an important tactic for dealing reactively with small details.
[2] Lindblom's essay “The Science of Muddling Through” (1959) helped policymakers understand why they needed to consider a different approach when making policy changes.
The goal for the new perspective of incrementalism was for policy makers to avoid making changes before they really engaged and rationally thought through the issue.
[citation needed] The antithesis of incrementalism is that work must be accomplished in one single push rather than through a process of continuous improvement.
Incrementalism in the study of rationality can be seen as a stealthy way to bring about radical changes that were not initially intended, a slippery slope.
Denmark, a small country of around 5 million people, became a world leader in this technology using an incremental approach,[8] while more formal design processes in the US, Germany and the United Kingdom failed to develop competitive machines.
[citation needed] In practice, however, windmill design is not very complicated and the biggest problem is the tradeoff between cost and reliability.
[11] Looking the United States Federal Budget is a back and forth negotiation between politicians and provides great insight of incremental change.
[12] Every year a new budget must be formed to allocate funds to the agencies such as the DoD and government programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
Incrementalism is the antithesis of intrusive central planning, which can create rigid work systems unable to deal with the actual problems faced at the grassroots level.