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Tag: Mackinac Center; Overton Window

Glenn Beck Highlights Mackinac Center's "Overton Window"

By THE MC Mackinac Center Blog, Section News
Posted on Mon Nov 23, 2009 at 08:56:04 AM EST
Tags: Mackinac Center; Overton Window (all tags)

-Joseph G. Lehman

(Cross-posted from the MC, the Mackinac Center blog.)

Yesterday on his Fox television show, Glenn Beck described public policy changes along a spectrum from right to left, dubbing the range of current policies "the Overton Window." He borrowed the term my colleagues and I gave to a theory of change developed by the Mackinac Center's late vice president, Joseph Overton. When Joe died in 2003, I built a presentation around his idea, and I still use it to show how think tanks can shift public policy.

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