SOME PRAXIOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE SOCALLED ‘OVERTON WINDOW OF POLITICAL POSSIBILITIES’, ‘FRAMING’ AND RELATED PROBLEMS Cover Image

SOME PRAXIOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE SOCALLED ‘OVERTON WINDOW OF POLITICAL POSSIBILITIES’, ‘FRAMING’ AND RELATED PROBLEMS
SOME PRAXIOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE SOCALLED ‘OVERTON WINDOW OF POLITICAL POSSIBILITIES’, ‘FRAMING’ AND RELATED PROBLEMS

Author(s): Benon Zbigniew Szałek
Subject(s): Politics, Political Theory
Published by: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
Keywords: praxiology; political manipulation; framing; window of political possibility;

Summary/Abstract: Th e so-called ‘Overton Window of Political Possibilities’ originates from a conceptnamed aft er Joseph P. Overton and is based on the assumption that any collection of publicpolicies within a policy area can be arranged in order from more free to less free. At any onetime, some group of adjacent policies along the freedom spectrum fall into a ‘window of politicalpossibility’. Policies inside the window are politically acceptable, meaning offi ceholders believethey can support the policies and survive the next election.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 237-257
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: English