Joseph Overton

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Joseph Paul Overton (January 4, 1960 – June 30, 2003) was an American think-tank executive who served as the senior vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. He is best known for his work in the mid-1990s developing an idea since known as the Overton window.

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