Reply #6: I think you can find it with the Repuglicans also

[Ichingcarpenter]

Paradigm shifts are difficult for the established structure. In 1962, Thomas Kuhn wrote The Structure of Scientific Revolution, and fathered, defined and popularized the concept of "paradigm shift" . Kuhn argues that scientific advancement is not evolutionary, but rather is a "series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions", and in those revolutions "one conceptual world view is replaced by another".

Think of a Paradigm Shift as a change from one way of thinking to another. It's a revolution, a transformation, a sort of metamorphosis. It just does not happen, but rather it is driven by agents of change.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm_shift

I thought that the study done by Petty in this article hardly touched the Paradigm synthesis of change.