Congress as public enemy: public attitudes toward American political institutions
This timely book describes and explains the American people's alleged hatred of their own branch of government, the U.S. Congress. Intensive focus-group sessions held across the country and a specially designed national survey indicate that much of the negativity is generated by popular percept...
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Cambridge [u.a.]
Cambridge Univ. Press
1995
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| Edition: | 1. publ. |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in political psychology and public opinion
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| Summary: | This timely book describes and explains the American people's alleged hatred of their own branch of government, the U.S. Congress. Intensive 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. John R. Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse argue that, although the public is deeply disturbed by debate, compromise, deliberate pace, the presence of interest groups, and the professionalization of politics, many of these traits are endemic to modern democratic government. Congress is an enemy of the public partially because it is so public. Calls for reforms such as term limitations reflect the public's desire to attack these disliked features. Acknowledging the need for some reforms to be taken more seriously, the authors conclude that the public's unwitting desire to reform democracy out of a democratic legislature is a cure more dangerous than the disease. |
| Physical Description: | XIV, 186 S. graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 0521482992 0521483360 |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of figures page viii
List of tables ix
Preface xi
1. Introduction: What is wrong with the American political
system? i
2. Changing levels of support for individual institutions 22
3. Perceptions of political institutions 41
4. Perceptions of congressional features and reforms 62
5. Focus groups and perceptions of the Washington system 84
6. Who approves of Congress? 106
7. Support for democratic processes 125
8. Conclusion: The people and their political system 145
Appendix 163
References 174
Index 183
vii
Figures
2.1. Confidence in Congress, the presidency, and the
Supreme Court page 32
3.1. Evaluations of members and institutions 45
4.1. Public judgments on term limits 79
5.1. The two political systems 88
6.1. Approval of members of Congress no
6.2. Party effects on approval with education and political
involvement 112
6.3. Support for term limits 121
7.1. Process propensity and approval of members of
Congress 13 3
7.2. Process propensity and support for congressional
reforms 13 5
7.3. Expertise and support for congressional reforms 143
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Tables
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3.1. Open ended responses on likes and dislikes of the
i federal government and Congress page 48
I 3.2. Differences in ideological orientation between self and
the three branches 50
3.3. Handling of most important problem facing the nation 54
3.4. Emotional reactions to members of Congress, the
president, and the Supreme Court justices 58
4.1. Opinions about Congress and the Washington system 64
4.2. Events contributing to dislike of Congress 69
4.3. Support for proposed reforms 75
6.1. Bivariate correlations of demographic and attitudinal
variables with referents of Congress 108
6.2. Approval of members of Congress: general model 114
6.3. Approval of members of Congress: general model with
process variables 116
6.4. Approval of members of Congress: general model with
process variables and approval of own member 118
6.5. Approval of the institution of Congress: general model
with process variables and approval of own member 120
7.1. Characteristics of propensity groups 130
7.2. Expertise and propensities 140
7 3 Expertise and attitudes toward democratic processes 141
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