Political Attitudes, Political Participation and Voter Conduct in United Germany, 2002

<p>Political attitudes and political participation in united Germany. Cumulated data set from the data sets of the four largely identical cross-section surveys at two different survey times (before and after the election). Topics: The questions listed below were posed either in the pre-election or post-election investigation: judgement on current general and personal economic situation as well as economic situation in the previous year; expected economic situation; knowledge about the importance of first vote and second vote; satisfaction with democracy; interest in politics; intent to vote and certainty of one's voting decision; manner of voting, absentee ballot, voting booth or not voting; the same voting decision after knowledge about the result of the election; party preference (Sunday question, first vote and second vote); selections with first and second vote; time of voting decision; most important reasons for one's own voting decision; voting intent and reasons for not voting; estimated certainty that selected smaller parties would take seats in Federal Parliament (FDP, Alliance 90/the Greens, PDS, Republicans); expected election winner (party) in the Federal Parliament election; evaluation of democracy as conception of a state; most important reasons for dissatisfaction with the parties; coalition preference; satisfaction with result of Federal Parliament election; intensity of following the election campaign; extent of active information conduct during the election campaign phase; party dissatisfaction: judgement on parties and politicians and their work as well as their relationship with the citizens (scale); most important problems of the country; issue relevance and issue ability of the parties; efficacy: possibilities of citizens to influence parties and government (scale); assessment of the position of the most important parties on the topics nuclear energy, influx of foreigners, European unification; personal position on these topics and importance of problem solution; place of residence before the turning point; comparative judgement (before and after the turning point, separate in East and West) on personal standard of living, equity of income distribution, social security, solidarity of the people among each other and protection for the citizens from crime; knowledge about the exact number of states in the Federal Republic; sympathy scale for the CDU, CSU, SPD, FDP, Alliance 90/the Greens, the Republicans, the PDS and the Schill Party; postmaterialism (Inglehart index); psychological self-characterization; trust in institutions: trust in the Federal Parliament, the Federal Constitutional Court, the Federal Government, representatives in Federal Parliament, judiciary, police, government, churches, parties, Federal German Armed Forces, trade unions, environmental protection groups and business associations as well as employer's federations; preference for chancellor; sympathy scale for the candidates for chancellor Stoiber and Schroeder; assessment of the characteristics of the two candidates for chancellor regarding sympathy, trustworthiness, energy and their concepts to get the economy going; political participation (scale); self-classification on a left-right continuum; feeling of being represented in selected associations, institutions and parties; social moral orientations (scale); satisfaction with Federal Government; geographic ties: closeness to the municipality, region, the part of the state, Germany as a whole, the EU and Europe as well as with the former FRG or GDR before 1989; classification of the parties on a left-right continuum; media usage: reading local, regional and national daily newspapers; use of political broadcasts; type (occupational, private), frequency and length of Internet use as well as frequency of use of political information and actions on the Internet; attitude to electronic voting on the Internet; viewing both television debates between the candidates for chancellor Schroeder and Stoiber and assessment of the performance of the candidates; assessment of the equity of the social system in the Federal Republic; assessment of personal disadvantage as member of a specific population group in society; behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament election; extremism scale: national pride, desire for nationalization of private businesses, public good before association interests, dictatorship as the better type of state, good sides to National Socialism, Hitler and extermination of Jews, foreign infiltration of the Federal Republic, GDR with more positive sides, marriages between partners of differing nationality, too much influence of Jews, socialism as a good idea, Jews as different and understanding for attacks on homes for applicants for political asylum.</p>

统一德国的政治态度与政治参与数据集。本数据集整合了四次基本一致的横截面调查数据，采集自选举前与选举后两个不同时段。调查涉及的主题包括：对当前整体经济状况、个人经济状况及过往一年经济状况的评价，对未来经济形势的预期，对两票制（第一票、第二票）重要性的认知，对民主制度的满意度，政治兴趣度，投票意向与投票决定的确定程度，投票方式（邮寄选票、投票站投票或放弃投票），知晓选举结果后是否改变投票决定，政党偏好（周日调查问题、第一票与第二票选择），第一票与第二票的投票选择，投票决定的时间节点，个人投票决定的首要动因，投票意向与放弃投票的原因，对指定小型政党（自由民主党（FDP）、联盟90/绿党（Alliance 90/the Greens）、民主社会主义党（PDS）、德国共和党）能否获得联邦议院（Federal Parliament）席位的预估置信度，对联邦议院选举获胜政党的预期，对作为国家治理理念的民主的评价，对政党不满的首要动因，联合执政偏好，对联邦议院选举结果的满意度，竞选活动关注强度，竞选阶段主动获取信息的行为程度，政党不满度：对政党、政客及其履职情况与民众关系的评价量表，国家面临的首要问题，政党的议题相关性与议题处置能力，政治效能感：公民影响政党与政府的可能性量表，对主要政党在核能、外国移民涌入、欧洲一体化议题上立场的评价，个人在上述议题上的立场及问题解决的重要性感知，两德统一前的居住地，对两德统一前后（分东德、西德样本）个人生活水平、收入分配公平性、社会保障、民众互助程度及公民治安保护的对比评价，对德意志联邦共和国州数的认知，对基民盟（CDU）、基社盟（CSU）、社民党（SPD）、自由民主党（FDP）、联盟90/绿党（Alliance 90/the Greens）、德国共和党、民主社会主义党（PDS）及希尔党（Schill Party）的好感度量表，后物质主义价值观（英格尔哈特指数（Inglehart index）），心理自我定位，对各类机构的信任度：包括联邦议院、联邦宪法法院、联邦政府、联邦议院议员、司法体系、警察、政府部门、教会、政党、联邦国防军、工会、环保组织、商业协会及雇主联合会，总理人选偏好，对总理候选人施托伊贝尔（Stoiber）与施罗德（Schroeder）的好感度量表，对两位总理候选人在亲和力、可信度、行动力及提振经济理念方面的特征评价，政治参与度量表，左右意识形态光谱自我定位，在选定社团、机构与政党中的被代表感，社会道德取向量表，对联邦政府的满意度，地域归属感：对所在市镇、地区、州内区域、整个德国、欧盟及欧洲的亲近感，以及对1989年前原联邦德国（FRG）或民主德国（GDR）的归属感，政党的左右意识形态光谱定位，媒体使用习惯：阅读地方、区域及全国性日报，收听收看政治类广播/电视节目，互联网使用类型（职业性、私人）、使用频率与时长，以及互联网上政治信息获取与政治行动的参与频率，对网络电子投票的态度，观看总理候选人施罗德与施托伊贝尔的电视辩论情况及对候选人表现的评价，对德意志联邦共和国社会体系公平性的评价，对作为社会特定群体成员所遭遇的个人劣势的评价，上一次联邦议院选举的投票行为，极端主义倾向量表：涵盖民族自豪感、私营企业国有化诉求、公共利益优先于社团利益、独裁为更优国家治理形式、纳粹主义的积极面、希特勒与犹太人大屠杀、联邦共和国遭外国渗透、民主德国的积极面向、跨国婚姻、犹太人影响力过大、社会主义为美好理念、犹太人异类化及对政治避难申请者住所袭击的包容度等维度。