The various writings of Charles E. Lindblom are associated most closely with incrementalism and, in fact, it was he who is as responsible as anyone for the nation’s name, disjointed incrementalism, as a description of the policymaking process. Disjointed, in this context, means that the analysis and evaluation of conditions and alternative responses to perceived conditions are uncoordinated and occur throughout society, while incrementalism means that only a limited selection of policy alternatives are provided to policymakers and that each one of these alternatives represents only an infinitesimal change in the status quo.