Spring Study 1984

Judgement on parties and politicians. Political attitudes.

Topics: judgement on the economic situation in the Federal Republic
and assessment of further development next year; interest in politics;
party inclination; party allegiance and reasons for identification with
a party (scale); preferred government measures to alleviate the current
economic difficulties (scale); party preference (ballot procedure);
sympathy scale for the federal parties; issue relevance; issue
competence of the parties; personal change in party voted for; behavior
at the polls in the Federal Parliament election 1983; threat to peace
from the great powers USA and Soviet Union; preferred social system;
significance of municipal, state, federal as well as European
elections; interest in news and events from neighboring European
countries; identification as European; most important goals of a united
Europe; attitude to a dissolution of the European Community; judgement
on the development of agreement among the nations of the EC in the last
12 months; influence of the EC on the security of peace in Europe;
attitude to an extension of the influence of the EC in world politics;
the role of the Europeans in the world and political relationship to
the USA; knowledge and judgement on the job of the European Parliament;
preferred decision-making authority of the European Parliament;
judgement on the development of the European unification process since
the first European election five years ago; interest in as well as
self-assessment of extent to which informed about the European
Parliament and the impending European election; behavior at the polls
in the European Election 1971; intent to participate in the impending
European Election; party preference at the European level (ballot
procedure); comparison of decision criteria for party choice at the
Federal Parliament election and European Election; judgement on the
importance of the European Election and significance of one´s own
voting (scale); most important political tasks in Europe; parties and
European nations making the greatest effort for European interests;
countries with the strongest personal interest in the EC; influence of
economic difficulties in the Western European countries on the
relationship between European partners; acceptance of economic
disadvantages in the Federal Republic to support poorer countries in
the EC; judgement on membership of the Federal Republic in the EC;
easing of reunification of Germany through Western European
unification; perceived advantages and disadvantages of European
unification; satisfaction with democracy in the country; judgement on
freedom and opportunities to develop in the Federal Republic;
self-classification on a left-right continuum; significance of selected
moral concepts in the Federal Republic; attitudes to selected political
questions; attitude to nuclear energy; attitude to the Greens taking
seats in Federal Parliament and in various state parliaments as well as
assumed reasons for election of Greens; trust in selected institutions
in the Federal Republic (scale); general confidence in the future.

Religiousness; union membership and solidarity with trade unions; fear
of unemployment; self-assessment of social class; possession of a
telephone.

Interviewer rating: presence of third persons during interview and
their degree of relationship to the respondent; intervention of others
in the interview; willingness of respondent to cooperate; assessment of
the reliability of the responses; length of interview and date of
interview.