In Contempt of Congress: Postwar Press Coverage on Capitol Hill

by Mark J. Rozell

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275956903
• ISBN13: 9780275956905
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.6"