The Public's Increasingly Negative View of the Federal Government
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2015-06-12
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Johns Hopkins University
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This paper is focused on determining if the complex system of the United States Federal Government is broken and how each branch of government has aided in the public’s negative perception. Public confidence in the Federal government has been studied by political science scholars for years and polling results indicate that the public’s negative confidence is not due to the actions of a single political party or overall political polarization but are attributed to more recent damaging issues of an ineffective government and concerns with a few Federal officials. Some issues of detrimental bureaucracy affect only a concentrated group of people, but other issues have had more far-reaching effects on the public nationwide and subsequently on their opinions of the Federal government. Through an examination of historical events occurring during the years of the Federal government’s lowest approval ratings in political polls, this research will shed light on the need of the government to improve each branch of government to put the public’s needs first, politics second and egos third in an effort to rectify many failures in the system. The correction of these issues is necessary for the public to truly trust the government again and is needed for those that depend on the government the most – the poor, as well as, future generations of Americans.
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federal government, public opinion polls, political polls, executive branch, judicial branch, legislative branch, policy, politics and government