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  1. The Overton window is the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time. [1] It is also known as the window of discourse . The term is named after the American policy analyst Joseph Overton , who proposed that an idea's political viability depends mainly on whether it falls within this range, rather than ...

  2. theweek.com › 102517 › the-overton-window-explainedThe Overton window explained

    Jul 30, 2019 · The Overton window, a political science concept born in the 1990s, has become the go-to model for commentators amid the rise of Donald Trump and Brexiteers. The term was devised by the late...

  3. Feb 26, 2019 · Joseph P. Overton was an executive at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in the 1990s when he introduced the concept now known as the Overton window. He died in 2003.

  4. Jan 18, 2019 · In the mid-1990s, Joseph Overton, a researcher at the US think tank the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, proposed the idea of a ‘window’ of socially acceptable policies within any given domain. This came to be known as the Overton window of political possibilities.

  5. Charles Ernest Overton (1865–1933) was a British and Swedish physiologist and biologist, now regarded as a pioneer of the theory of the cell membrane. [1] In the last years of the 19th century Overton did experimental work, allowing the distinction to be drawn between the cell wall of plants and their cytoplasmic membrane. [2]

  6. Richard Arvin Overton (May 11, 1906 – December 27, 2018) was an American supercentenarian who at the age of 112 years, 230 days was the oldest verified surviving U.S. World War II veteran and oldest man in the United States. He served in the United States Army.