The Overton window (also called the window of discourse) is a concept in political science that describes the range of policies or ideas that are considered politically acceptable or mainstream at a given time in a society.

Origin…

It was named after Joseph Overton, a policy analyst at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, who developed the idea in the 1990s. Overton originally used it to explain to donors and policymakers why some libertarian ideas were “unthinkable” and how to make them thinkable over time.

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