The Product Cycle

This may be old stuff but it is new to me--the classic six stages of policy development (also sometimes called the stages of the product cycle):

1. Enthusiasm
2. Disillusion
3. Panic
4. Search for the Guilty
5. Punishment of the Innocent
6. Praise and Honors for the Non-Participants

Pinched from Michael Froomkin. Idle curiosity, is this a riff on Lawrence Kohlberg? Or Elizabeth Kübler-Ross?

[Afterthought: This list isn't really right, is it? In our world, when we find the guilty, we make them President of the World Bank.