SPD Members Survey 1991

Judgement on the SPD by its members. Topics: Length of membership in
the SPD as well as in the local committee; contact or cause for
personally joining the party; manner of first contact on the part of
the party after joining; evaluation of selected reasons for joining the
SPD (scale); attitude to the SPD and evaluation of the party from
current view; participation in party activities, teams and task forces
in the party; participation in task forces on the level of the local
committee, the district association or the sub-district; classification
of current personal activity level in the party; reasons for withdrawal
from active party work; frequency of receiving information about the
party from the individual party levels from local committee to federal;
most important sources of information about the activities of local
committee; frequency of attending meetings and events of local
committee, study-group and other party levels; extent of offerings of
local committee outside of the election campaign and desired main focus
or weighting of the work of the local committee; participation in the
party with selected activities (scale); personal involvement with the
Federal Parliament election campaign 1990; type of activities of local
committee on the occasion of the Federal Parliament election and
personal participation; judgement on the election campaign activities
of local committee; extent of motivation of members by the election
campaign management or the candidates; interest in future participation
in the election campaign; participation in education events of the
party; most important sources of information about seminars; interest
in principle in such seminars; information on the course of the board
election in the local committee; quota regulation in filling board
positions; personal function status; interest in acceptance of a party
function; having several mandates; interest in taking on a mandate;
reasons for previous failure to take on a mandate;

adequate motivation of members for party work by local functionaries;
judgement on public relations work of functionaries; judgement on
reform recommendations for party work; attitude to a study-group for
older people; evaluation of personal abilities that could be useful for
party work; type and extent of media used for information about
political events; use of the member magazine ´Vorwaerts´; judgement on
selected topics and articles in ´Vorwaerts´; general judgement on
Vorwaerts and reason for judgement; memberships in other organizations;
earlier memberships and current activity level in these organizations;
evaluation of the reputation of the SPD as well as of the CDU/CSU in
the population in general as well as among selected social groups and
institutions; image of these parties as academic or worker party,
reputation as party of the self-employed or the civil service;
inventiveness, nepotism and disagreement of the parties as well as
judgement on political program (scale); moral orientations and
guidelines of personal conduct (scale); personal importance of
political tasks and issues (scale).