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Gradual: The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age de Greg Berman

Gradual: The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age

Autor Greg Berman, Aubrey Fox
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 iun 2023

Observăm în ultimii ani o evoluție a discursului public către extreme, unde apelurile pentru transformări sistemice imediate par să domine agenda politică. Gradual vine să tempereze acest entuziasm pentru soluții radicale, propunând o revenire la pragmatism. Greg Berman și Aubrey Fox analizează modul în care structurile administrative sunt proiectate să reziste șocurilor bruște, argumentând că progresul real se obține prin pași mărunți, dar siguri. Notăm cu interes modul în care autorii demontează mitul conform căruia doar mișcările disruptive pot genera impact social, oferind exemple concrete din istoria securității sociale și a reformelor judiciare.

Această lucrare reprezintă o evoluție firească în opera autorilor. Dacă în Trial and Error in Criminal Justice Reform sau Good Courts aceștia se concentrau pe eșecurile și inovațiile din sistemul judiciar, în Gradual extind cadrul de analiză către întreaga sferă a politicilor publice. Comparabil cu Incrementalism and Policymaking in the USA de Michael T. Hayes în rigurozitatea teoretică, volumul de față este actualizat pentru contextul actual de polarizare extremă și influența algoritmilor de social media. Subliniem faptul că textul nu este o pledoarie pentru pasivitate, ci pentru un „realism radical” care prioritizează rezultatele palpabile în detrimentul retoricii performative. Structura argumentației este clară, alternând între analiza datelor de sondaj și portretele unor reformatori care au înțeles că schimbarea durabilă necesită timp și negociere.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197637043
ISBN-10: 0197637043
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 165 x 236 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte celor interesați de politici publice și sociologie care caută o alternativă la polarizarea actuală. Cititorul va înțelege de ce reformele treptate sunt mai rezistente în timp și cum pot fi implementate schimbări majore fără a provoca un regres social violent. Este un ghid esențial pentru a naviga între idealismul utopic și cinismul politic, oferind o perspectivă onestă asupra modului în care funcționează cu adevărat guvernarea.

Despre autor

Greg Berman și Aubrey Fox sunt experți recunoscuți în politici publice și reformă judiciară, colaborând anterior la volume precum Trial and Error in Criminal Justice Reform. Greg Berman a scris pe larg despre sistemul de justiție penală, explorând în Reducing Crime, Reducing Incarceration impactul experimentelor locale. Aubrey Fox aduce o experiență vastă în analiza sectorului nonprofit, vizibilă în lucrarea The Nonprofit Crisis. Împreună, cei doi autori combină rigoarea academică a Oxford University Press cu o înțelegere practică a mecanismelor de schimbare socială în Statele Unite.

Descriere

A call to tone down our political rhetoric and embrace a common-sense approach to change.Many experts believe that we are at a fulcrum moment in history, a time that demands radical shifts in thinking and policymaking. Calls for bold change are everywhere these days, particularly on social media, but is this actually the best way to make the world a better place?In Gradual, Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox argue that, contrary to the aspirations of activists on both the right and the left, incremental reform is the best path forward. They begin by emphasizing that the very structure of American government explicitly and implicitly favors incrementalism. Particularly in a time of intense polarization, any effort to advance radical change will inevitably engender significant backlash. As Berman and Fox make clear, polling shows little public support for bold change. The public is, however, willing to endorse a broad range of incremental reforms that, if implemented, would reduce suffering and improve fairness. To illustrate how incremental changes can add up to significant change over time, Berman and Fox provide portraits of "heroic incrementalists" who have produced meaningful reforms in a variety of areas, from the expansion of Social Security to more recent efforts to reduce crime and incarceration.Gradual is a bracing call for a "radical realism" that prioritizes honesty, humility, nuance, and respect in an effort to transcend political polarization and reduce the conflict produced by social media.

Recenzii

Gradual' makes a passionate and convincing argument for incrementalism.
Practical and satisfying.
A welcome and necessary corrective to what ails much of our current thinking about transformative social change. Berman and Fox offer an illuminating roadmap for action that finds persuasive precedent in the cumulative capacity of modest steps to address profound challenges.
Berman and Fox have written a deeply wise and richly insightful book about the possibilities for social policy change. Illustrated by a wealth of examples from different policy areas—including their own experiences as criminal justice reformers—they argue that incremental reforms sustained over a long period have the capacity to make bigger, more impactful, and lasting change than can usually be attained from any single sweeping reform. This engaging book is both highly accessible to general readers and grounded in the scholarly literature. It will be a terrific addition to courses on public policymaking.
Radical incrementalism—the pursuit of revolutionary change over the geological time scale—is the world's most underrated force for social improvement. In this innovative, enjoyable, and sometimes inspiring book, Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox show how stepwise reform brought Social Security to America and safe streets to New York, and why incrementalism, not 'bold action,' is the solution to our most intractable problems. So here's what to do: read Gradual, identify a problem, then find three constructive steps you can take. As a veteran of the fight for same-sex marriage, I can say that the results will surprise you.
In this simply written and powerfully argued book, Berman and Fox make the telling point that incremental measures often produce major changes. Their insightful analysis moves beyond the inflated contemporary rhetoric and helps us understand what drives policy and how we might do better.
A major contribution to the study of incrementalism. Berman and Fox make a compelling case for the superiority of incrementalism as a way to make policies. While incrementalism can be a purposeful strategy, it may also result from many independent and uncoordinated changes (a phenomenon they call 'accidental incrementalism') or from what they call 'practitioner vetoes' in the implementation process.
Excellent for collections on public policy, social change, and American politics.

Notă biografică

Greg Berman is the Distinguished Fellow of Practice at the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. He also serves as coeditor of Vital City and writes a regular column about nonprofit leadership for City & State. Berman previously served as the executive director of the Center for Court Innovation. He is the author of four previous books, including Trial & Error in Criminal Justice Reform: Learning from Failure, with Aubrey Fox.Aubrey Fox is the Executive Director of the New York City Criminal Justice Agency, the City's main pretrial services agency working under contract with the New York City Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice. In this role, he oversees the major operations and future development of CJA, which carries the mission of reducing the use of pretrial detention. Previously, Fox has held a number of senior-level positions at the Center for Court Innovation, including launching the Center's U.K. office, the Centre for Justice Innovation, in London. He graduated with a master's degree in Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley, served as a VISTA Volunteer in San Antonio, Texas, was a Warren Weaver Fellow at The Rockefeller Foundation and a member of Coro's Leadership New York program.