Download or read book Congress as Public Enemy written by John R. Hibbing and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-12-07 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book describes and explains the American people's alleged hatred of their own branch of government, the U.S. Congress. Focus group sessions held across the country and a specially designed national survey indicate that much of the negativity is generated by popular perceptions of the processes of governing visible in Congress. But Hibbing and Theiss-Morse conclude that the public's unwitting desire to reform democracy out of a democratic legislature is a cure more dangerous than the disease.