How Americans Perceive Government in 2017 – by Jeffrey M. Jones, Frank Newport and Lydia Saad: “Gallup has recently published a series of articles detailing Americans’ views on the performance of government and how they would prefer it function. Here we have assembled the findings to provide a one-stop summary of public opinion on the way the nation is being led in 2017. Americans’ Evaluation of Government Overall, Americans’ views of government remain negative. Most U.S. adults are dissatisfied with how the executive and legislative branches are doing their jobs, and majorities hold unfavorable views of both major political parties. Even Republicans rate Congress negatively, despite their party being in control of both chambers…”