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Pierce, who currently serves as the secretary of the Executive Office of Communities and Development in the Weld Administration, told students that the New Paradigm offers an alternative to the traditional bureaucratic system of government. Instead, the New Paradigm contains five principles--free market orientation, choice, empowerment of the poor, decentralization and emphasis on what works--that Republicans assert will make the government both less expensive and more effective...
...although these principles and the three programs most associated with the so-called New Paradigm--enterprise zones, school vouchers and private ownership of public housing--have been billed as a new Republican approach to social policy, many question whether they are new and whether they are necessarily Republican...
...What's interesting is that these ideas are not new. What's new is the word 'New Paradigm,'" comments Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning William C. Apgar, Jr., noting that the Reagan administration had embraced the themes of empowerment and that the idea of the sale of public housing has been around for almost a decade...
Pierce agrees that the New Paradigm need not be an exclusively Republican concept. "If the New Paradigm is a successful model for governing in the 1990s and into the next century, the Democrats will embrace many of its concepts," says Pierce, who noted that a Wisconsin Democrat, Polly Williams, had originally suggested educational vouchers in her state...
...second New Paradigm program would replace mandatory school assignments with educational vouchers. The introduction of "choice" into the school system would mean schools would compete for students, forcing bad schools to improve if they want to remain in business, according to Pierce...