num_pages: 208
description: 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.
language: English
title: Congress as Public Enemy: Public Attitudes toward American Political Institutions
titlecomplete: Congress as Public Enemy: Public Attitudes toward American Political Institutions (Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology)
ratings_count: 12
series: Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology
publisher: Cambridge University Press