By Nikos Marantzidis and George Siakas*
The survey concerning democratic participation, was conducted by PORU (fielded on 19-20 March, 2016) on behalf of the Dukakis Center for Public and Humanitarian Services (http://dukakis-center.act.edu/), and it was presented in the Greek newspaper Kathimerini (https://goo.gl/Foyr1m)
Findings revealed that one-in-two (47%) believes that in Greece there is no substantial democracy, while 33% believe that democracy is the best regime despite its flaws. On the contrary, there is a share of 18% which says that it would prefer less democracy in order to have more prosperity.
As for the question concerning the participation in the parliamentary elections, 45.5% believe that the participation in the elections is inconsequential, while another 44% expresses the opinion that the participation in the elections is of great significance. In the meanwhile, 9% of the population says that the participation in the elections has an importance but not a great one.
The public opinion also expresses negative view for the politicians (51%) and only 11% express their confidence in them. On the contrary, the majority of the population (52%) gives a positive view for the police and the judges (44%).
*You can read the full article in Greek, here: https://goo.gl/Foyr1m
*The official report was presented in Greek and you could retrieve it from here: https://goo.gl/u1Bncq
*Nikos Marantzidis is teaching political science in the University of Macedonia and George Siakas is the Research Director of the Public Opinion Research Unit.
