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The hallmarks of these procedures, typical of the first approach, are clarity of objective, ex- plicitness of evaluation, a high degree of com- prehensiveness of overview, and, wherever possible, quantification of values for mathe- matical analysis.
In “The Science of Muddling Through” (1959), a remarkably short contribution, by Yale political scientist Charles E. Lindblom, the essence of several years of thinking about decision-making in complex situations like government and bureaucracy was distilled into a few principles.
Charles Lindblom's 1959 essay “The Science of ‘Muddling Through’” is best known for the strategy of decision making—disjointed incrementalism—that it recommended. That famous paper and Lindblom's …
'Muddling Through' Revisited. (Lindblom, C. (1959) The science of 'muddling through'. Public Administration Review, 27, pp. 79-88) D. A. HART. Self-confident and long-established the pro light of the utterly changed conditions fessions describe the work which which they confront us in the 1980s.
The Science of "Muddling Through" Author(s): Charles E. Lindblom Source: Public Administration Review, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Spring, 1959), pp. 79-88 Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American Society for Public Administration Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/973677 Accessed: 03/09/2008 12:18.
Charles Lindblom's "The Science of 'Muddling Through'" looked critically at synoptic decision making and introduced a new strategy, disjointed incrementalism, into the social science lexicon. In an insightful analysis, Professor Jonathan Bendor examines Lindblom's classic article and the aftermath
He came to that view through his extensive studies of welfare policies and trade unions throughout the industrialized world. Those views are set out in two articles separated by 20 years: "The Science Of 'Muddling Through'" (1959) and “Still Muddling, Not yet through” (1979), both of which were published in Public Administration Review .
