Joseph Overton, a libertarian political scientist at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Michigan, developed the concept of the Overton window in the 1990s. It was originally called Window of Political Possibilities, but after he died the idea was named after him, and other colleagues continued to develop the model.
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