In this way, the Window assumes a sequential public discourse, where the status quo is always at risk from the radical. Hallin’s spheres, by contrast, offer an X-ray of how discourse takes place.

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 free ...

Between bursts of artillery fire, he explained an American political science concept: the Overton Window – a theory that describes the range of policies and ideas a society considers acceptable ...

The Overton Window of Political Possibility explains how change happens. Fundamentally, politicians are limited by a “window” of policies that are widely accepted in society.

He has not only moved the Overton Window; he has opened it wide for humanity’s worst instincts to become just another political issue, as worthy of consideration and debate as any other. Anthony ...

The U.S. today is overdue for its next political transformation — one that would settle the country ... the Overton window has now shifted far beyond the boundaries of democratic self-government ...