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Hosted by Mackinac Center for Public Policy · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 137 episodes
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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.
Mackinac Center for Public Policy hosts The Overton Window, a government show with 137 episodes published.
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Michael Brown
scholar, acupuncturist, Chinese herbalist, and classical Chinese translator · The Lincy Institute – University of Nevada, Las Vegas
1 appearance on this show
Josh Bandoch
communication expert, TEDx speaker, author of How to Get What You Want · Illinois Policy Institute
1 appearance on this show
Matt Mitchell
Pass Game Coordinator and QB Coach · Colorado State University
1 appearance on this show
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1 appearance on this show
George Will
best-selling author & columnist
1 appearance on this show
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