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The '''Overton window''' is the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Giridharadas |first1=Anand |title=How America's Elites Lost Their Grip |url=https://time.com/5735384/capitalism-reckoning-elitism-in-america-2019/ |access-date=22 November 2019 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|TIME]] |date=21 November 2019}}</ref> It is also known as the '''window of discourse'''.
The term is named after the American policy analyst and former senior vice president at [[Mackinac Center for Public Policy]], [[Joseph Overton]], who proposed that an idea's political viability depends mainly on whether it falls within this range, rather than on politicians' individual preferences.<ref name="mackinac2">{{Cite web |url=http://www.mackinac.org/bio.aspx?ID=12 |title=Joseph P. Overton |publisher=[[Mackinac Center for Public Policy]] |access-date=30 August 2013}}</ref><ref name="mackinac1">{{Cite web |url=http://www.mackinac.org/12887 |title=A Brief Explanation of the Overton Window |publisher=[[Mackinac Center for Public Policy]]|access-date=22 November 2019}}</ref> According to Overton, the window frames the range of policies that a politician can recommend without appearing too extreme to gain or keep public office given the climate of [[public opinion]] at that time.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Astor |first=Maggie |date=
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