83 episodes
The Overton Window Mackinac Center for Public Policy
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- Government
Have you noticed that politicians struggle to enact the things they run on? They find themselves bound by what is popular, or at least their sense of it. The narrow range of policies that they can enact is called the Overton Window. The Overton Window podcast looks at issues around the country and the people changing what is politically possible.
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‘There’s so much we can learn from polls’
Erin Norman on measuring progress and setting strategy through polling
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‘There’s a wide-open Overton Window, and a lot of people have ideas’
Jason Hayes on how federal and state forests are managed
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‘If you can make them laugh, they’ll remember things’
Shoshana Weissmann on policy advocacy on social media
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‘The only way you’re going to get involved is by being involved’
Luke Derheim on volunteering on political campaigns
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‘Basically it was a free market wish list’
Kendall Cotton on major policy wins in Montana
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‘It’s a policy shift but also a cultural shift’
M. Nolan Gray on the battles for less restrictive housing regulation