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Item Details
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IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS
POSTWAR PRESS COVERAGE ON CAPITOL HILL |
| By: |
Mark J. Rozell |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£58.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0275956903 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780275956905 |
| Publisher: |
ABC-CLIO |
| Pub. date: |
22 July, 1996 |
| Series: |
Praeger Series in Political Communication |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Description: |
Examining the US electorate's ongoing disgust with its legislature, the author finds that much of the blame goes to highly negative press coverage of the Congress, and government in general, and that healthy scepticism has now been replaced by a cynicism that undermines representative government. |
| Synopsis: |
Over the past decade, the public's opinion of Congress has declined-election after election-to record lows. Mark J. Rozell examines the electorate's ongoing disgust with its legislature and the reasons for it. Putting recent Congresses in historical perspective, he notes that our modern representatives are actually less corrupt than those of the past, due in large measure to increased public scrutiny and ongoing tightening of ethics and conflict of interest rules. Still, the public remains skeptical, indeed hostile, toward that most representative of our national institutions. Rozell finds that much of the blame goes to highly negative press coverage of the Congress, and government in general, and that while Congress has always been a favorite target of critics and comedians, healthy skepticism has now largely been replaced by a debilitating cynicism that undermines the foundations of representative government. A major study which will be of interest to scholars and students of American politics, government, and media. |
| Illustrations: |
black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Praeger Publishers Inc |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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