Congress as Public Enemy: Public Attitudes Toward American Political Institutions

John R. Hibbing, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse

Cambridge University Press, Sep 29, 1995 - Political Science - 186 pages

This timely book describes and explains the American people's alleged hatred of their own branch of government, the U.S. Congress. Focus group sessions held across the country and a specially designed national survey indicate that much of the negativity is generated by popular perceptions of the processes of governing visible in Congress. But Hibbing and Theiss-Morse conclude that the public's unwitting desire to reform democracy out of a democratic legislature is a cure more dangerous than the disease.

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Congress, the people's branch of government, is passionately ridiculed with great regularity by the people. But why? Does everyone really despise Congress, and what about it do they hate? These ...

Congress as public enemy: public attitudes toward American political institutions

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Congress, the people's branch of government, is passionately ridiculed with great regularity by the people. But why? Does everyone really despise Congress, and what about it do they hate? These ...

Bibliographic information

• Title: Congress as Public Enemy: Public Attitudes Toward American Political Institutions; Cambridge Studies in Political; Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology; Cambridge studies in political psychology and public opinion
• Authors: John R. Hibbing, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1995
• ISBN: 0521483360, 9780521483360
• Length: 186 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / American Government / General; Political Science / American Government / Legislative Branch; Political Science / Political Process / General