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Incrementalism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any method of achieving a goal by means of a series of gradual increments, or small steps. countable, uncountable

    "We don’t want to scare away our members or provoke a fight with the government. So the only realistic approach is incrementalism. We will campaign, issue by issue, sector by sector, for gradual improvements. […] The problem was never that system change is too big an ask or takes too long. The problem is that incrementalism is too small an ask."

Etymology

From incremental + -ism.

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