ABSTRACT
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The rational-comprehensive method of decision making evokes a vision of policy makers clearly
defining objectives and making value-maximizing choices after a thorough examination of relevant
alternatives. Unfortunately, this ideal is usually unattainable. Inherent obstacles to rational decision
making prompted Charles E. Lindblom to advance his model of disjointed incrementalism as
an alternative method of policy making (Dahl and Lindblom, 1953; Lindblom, 1959; 1965;
1979; Braybrooke and Lindblom, 1963).
