Domestic approval rating

[Rabble]

How to raise it? it keep getting lower.
Even my neighbors have incredibly low approval.

What happen when it reach zero?

[GIJoe597]

To raise it you can lower taxes and/or lower the price of food/wood/electricity/petroleum.

If you are a democracy, when it is election time you can be voted out of office.

[Rabble]

thanks.

[BlueJayRage]

Increase spending on social programs. Get them all at or near 100%. Then lower the domestic price of petroleum. Lower your unemployment rate gradually while keeping an eye on inflation. Build your industries to increase trade to help fund your social programs.

[Grimlich]

The most efficient way to maintain a high approval is through cultural funding in the services tab. Culture is very cheap and usually pays more than it cost immediately. See how your revenue is greatly increased by willingness of citizens to pay their taxes once culture is maxed, it foster more short term economic growth than it cost.

Construction is the main engine of economic growth. When unemployment is very low and economic growth is strong it makes the citizenry happier because more jobs are available mainly through construction. When always using the cheat breakground, we end up not providing with construction work which is an important factor in the unemployment calculation. All games where breakground was used end up with a longterm and impossible to fix, deficit in approval rating. Also, maxing social program or research will create a lot of jobs and get the approval higher.

[Rabble]

thanks

[atraphoenix]

do not annex colonies or other countries before elections. this causes hardest DAR hit in short term. Normally stockpiling all pop consumed goods, raising social spending to max, no taxing have allowed me to win all elections so far - six months before elections even if DAR had hit rockbottom.