Title: What Is It About Government That Americans Dislike
Abstract: Introduction: studying the American people's attitudes toward government John R. Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse Part I. When Do Americans Tend to Be Dissatisfied with Government?: 1. Political trust revisited: dej... vu all over again? Jack Citrin and Samantha Luks 2. We're all in this together: the decline in trust in government, 1958-96 John R. Alford 3. Were the halcyon days really golden? Attitudes toward the political system, 1945-65 Stephen Earl Bennett 4. The origins and consequences of public views about government Virginia Chanley, Wendy Rahn and Thomas Rudolph Part II. With Which Government Institutions Do American Tend to Be Satisfied?: 5. Public confidence in the leaders of American governmental institutions Lilliard E. Richardson Jr., David Houston and Chris Sissie Hadjiharalambous 6. Linking presidential and congressional approval during unified and divided government Jeffrey L. Bernstein 7. Is Washington really the problem? Eric M. Uslaner 8. Explaining public support for devolution: the role of political trust Marc J. Hetherington and John D. Nugent Part III. Do Actions on the Part of Politicians Cause Americans to Be Dissatisfied with Government?: 9. On red capes and charging bulls: how and why conservative politicians and interest groups promoted political anger Amy Fried and Douglas B. Harris 10. A reassessment of who's to blame: a positive case for the public evaluation of Congress David W. Brady and Sean M. Theriault 11. Sr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: public views of debate in the political system Carolyn M. Funk Part IV. How Is Dissatisfaction with Government Measured and Incorporated into Theory?: 12. Trust in federal government: the phenomenon and its antecedents Diana Owen and Jack Dennis 13. The psychology of public dissatisfaction with government Tom R. Tyler 14. The means is the end John R. Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse.
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-09-01
Language: en
Type: book
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