ABSTRACT
The name of C. E. Lindblom is synonymous with the concept of incrementalism in the academic literature on public policy making. From the early 1950s he developed an incisive critique of theoretical approaches which depicted public policy making as an exercise in means/ends rationality based on the analysis of comprehensive information. According to Lindblom, such rational-comprehensive, or synoptic, models grossly misrepresented the real practices of policy making, to which he applied his concepts of successive limited comparisons (Lindblom, 1959) and disjointed incrementalism (Braybrooke and Lindblom, 1963).
