Overtona Window

Overton's window, or window of discourse - an idea describing how to change the perception of society by socially unacceptable issues.

Its author, Joseph P. Overton, former vice president of Mackinac Center for Public Policy, argued that the political viability of the idea depends only on whether it fits in the window, and not on the individual p of politicians. According to Overton's description, his window describes a number of principles considered politically acceptable in the current state of public opinion, which a politician can apply, without the risk of accusations of too extreme views on holding a public office.

Overton described the spectrum from more to less free, deliberately placing it on a vertical axis, to avoid comparisons to right-wing political views. Joshua Treviño said that the levels of social acceptance described are:

Overton's window describes the possibilities of enforcing the legalization of unaccepted or forbidden issues at a given moment in a given society. Agitators of issues outside the window educate society in order to transfer and / or develop a window with a chosen idea. Advocates of the current legal and social situation try to convince people that ideas outside the window should be considered as unacceptable.

After Overton's death, the concept of promoting ideas outside the window was explored, or through an "outer frame" with the intention of obtaining less radical ideas accepted by comparison.

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