Basically, the incrementalist paradigm posits a conservative tendency in public policymaking new public policies are seen as the brains, time, and money to fashion truly different policies; he or she accepts the policies of the past as satisficing and legitimate. There are also certain sunk costs in existing policies that necessitate basic redistributions of social values. As one scholar of political feasibility put it, “what is most feasible is incremental.”13 An illustration of the incrementalist paradigm is shown in Figure 10 - 1.