You The Portuguese consider that scientists should be listened to more in matters like climate change (64.8%), renewable energies (58.6%) is he sustainable development (53.6%)according to a survey released Wednesday by the OECD.
For most of the respondents (52.2%), the degree of involvement of scientists in political decision-making is “low or non-existent”reads a document published by PlanAPP — Center for Planning, Policy and Prospective Skills for Public Administration on the OECD survey.
The survey on the confidence of citizens in the Government and in public institutions presents Portugal “in tune” with other countriesin a general way.
However, the Portuguese have lower confidence levels in relation to some public institutions, namely the Public Administration (Portugal 54.2%, other countries 63%) and in relation to courts (Portugal 42.1%, other countries 56.9%)according to the results obtained from the data of each country.
THE policeman appears as the most reliable institution (Portugal 71.8%, other countries 67.1%) and the political parties As the less reliable (Portugal 20.9%, other countries 24.5%).
THE The confidence of the Portuguese in the media is distinguished by the positive (Portugal 48.3%, other countries 38.8%).
Regarding the determinants of trust in public management, Reliability is the value that collects the most positive expectations (Portugal 53.9%, other countries 47.7%) and the integrity that concentrates more negative expectations (Portugal 29.6%, other countries 37.6%), with politicians being the group with the most negative assessment”.
Only 27.0% of respondents considered Politicians are likely to reject “revolving door” offers in exchange for political favors.
The survey covered 22 countries and more than 50,000 people.
Source: Observadora
