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critics and comedians, healthy skepticism has now largely been
replaced by a debilitating cynicism that undermines the foundations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.
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