Instead of siding with protestors calling for immediate democratic reform washington supported existing regimes in cracking down on the opposition provided a long-term gradualist program for change was being implemented .
Instead of regarding this gradualist approach as a moral and political failure , a conclusion that historians on the left regard as , shall we say , self-evident , the argument offered here is just the opposite .
During this period , japanese policymakers have attracted criticism from ( among others ) ben bernanke , the chairman of the federal reserve , for their gradualist approach to reflating the economy .
