Congress Behaving Badly The Rise of Partisanship and Incivility and the Death of Public Trust

Name: Congress Behaving Badly The Rise of Partisanship and Incivility and the Death of Public Trust
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ISBN: 9780275998684

ISBN-10: 0275998681

ISBN-13: 9780275998684

Edition: 2008

Authors: Sunil Ahuja, Tom Sawyer

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Partisan rancor and the public exchange of incivilities between members of Congress have become rampant on Capitol Hill and in the media studios since the 1980s. Polarization between mutually repugnant congressional factions has reached the point that the legislative process is paralyzed and democracy is hobbled. Ahuja documents the rise of incivility and the partisan shrillness in Congress, traces its complex causes, identifies its adverse consequences for the functioning of democratic government, and prescribes remedies to curb destructive partisanship and restore dignity and efficiency to the workings of Congress. Ahuja catalogs the most shocking examples of the abrasive new…

Book details

Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 3/30/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

SUNIL AHUJA is Associate Professor of Political Science at Youngstown State University. He is Editor of the recurrent series The Roads to Congress, coeditor of Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Past President of the Northeastern Political Science Association.



Foreword


Preface



The Problem of Incivility and Partisanship



The Capitol Hill Junior High School



Changing of the Guard



What Is Behind Partisanship and Uncivil Debate in Congress?



Whither Confidence and Respect in the Modern Congress?



The Impact of Partisan Warfare on the Legislative Process



Democracy Is a Conversation


Notes


Index