Low Satisfaction with Democracy in Austria

Lifestyle & TravelCulture ♦ Published: August 22, 2022; 20:00 ♦ (Vindobona)

According to a survey called Democracy Radar by the Austrian Democracy Lab (ADL) of Danube University Krems and the University of Graz, Austrians' satisfaction with their democracy remains low. According to the ADL, only 61 percent of respondents believe that democracy in Austria functions very well or rather well.

According to the latest Democracy Radar of the Austrian Democracy Lab (ADL), Austrians' satisfaction with their democracy is low. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Gryffindor, CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)

Only 61 percent of those surveyed believe that domestic democracy functions very well or rather well. According to the Austrian Democracy Lab, 37 percent believe it functions rather or very poorly. According to the survey, satisfaction with democracy in Austria is stagnating at a low level, slightly above the previous low point of the Democracy Radar measurements from fall 2020, when…