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Congress as Public Enemy : Public Attitudes toward American Political Institutions (Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology)
Congress as Public Enemy Public Attitudes toward American Political Institutions - Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology Author:John R. Hibbing, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse 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 Hi... more »bbing 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.« less