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Over the past decade, the public's opinion of Congress has declined - election after election - to record lows. Mark J. Rozell examines the reasons for the electorate's ongoing disgust with its legislature. Putting recent Congresses in historical perspectives, 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 this most representative national institution. 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and that while Congress has always been a favorite target of critics and comedians, healthy skepticism has now largely been replaced by a debilitating cynicism that undermines the foundations of representative government.
This is a major study which will be of interest to scholars and students of American politics, government, and media.
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Government and the press, Journalists, Press and politics, Reporters and reporting, United States, United States. Congress, État et presse, États-Unis, États-Unis. Congress, Presse et politique, Presse, USA Congress, USA, Journalistes, BerichterstattungPlaces
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In contempt of Congress: postwar press coverage on Capitol Hill
1996, Praeger
in English
0275956903 9780275956905
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-140) and index.
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