Attitudes on Current Questions of Domestic Policy (1992)

Attitude to current topics of domestic policy.

Topics: Satisfaction with democracy; party preference (Sunday
question); behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament
election; trust in public institutions (scale); importance of federal
institutions (scale); preferred development of society (scale); most
important goals of domestic policy. Attitude to foreigners and the
right to asylum; assessment of abuse of the right to asylum; attitude
to an ammendment to the constitution on the right to asylum; attitude
to a limit to admission of politically persecuted and consistent
deportation of those whose application for asylum was denied; contacts
with foreigners; necessity of foreign workers for the German economy.
Satisfaction with social conditions in the Federal Republic;
satisfaction with the constitution; perceived threat to public safety
as well as perceived increase in general crime; perceived personal
threat from selected forms of crime. Political participation and
readiness for protest behavior; attitude to Europe; assessment of the
advantageousness of EC membership for the Federal Republic; preference
for national or Europe-wide solution of selected political problems.
Need for additional qualified employees from the West to strengthen
public administration in Eastern Germany; estimated time required until
achievement of equivalent living conditions in Eastern and Western
Germany; importance of dealing with the STASI and SED past in the GDR;
the one responsible for comeing to terms with the GDR past; trust in
the (Gauck) special office for STASI records; attitude to the right to
access to one´s own STASI file; preference for a comprehensive or minor
ammendment to the constitution.

Self-classification on a left-right continuum; classification of
voters for right-wing radical parties as dedicated supporters or
protest voters; importance of the problem of right-wing radicalism and
assessment of greater activities in West or East Germany; judgement on
the active government defense against radicals from left and right;
assessment of the extent of jeopardy to democracy through left-wing
extremist and right-wing extremist groups and organizations (scale);
year of birth and month of birth; judgement on the jeopardy to one´s
own job and loss of job among close persons; unemployment or short time
work; union membership; party inclination; religiousness.