The Political Culture of Southern Europe: A Four Nation Study

Forms and extent of political participation. Judgement on parties,
political attitudes and moral orientations.

Topics: most important political problems; ideal country in which
economic development, individual freedom, social equality and democracy
have been realized; media usage; memberships in clubs, occupation
organizations, parties or trade unions; union membership of family
members; religiousness; feelings with the term politics; political
participation; feeling of belonging to a social class and
self-classification of social class affiliation; attitude to forms of
political participation from unconventional to violence-oriented;
judgement on politicians; interest in politics; sympathy scale for the
most important politicians for the USA, the USSR, the military, the
Greens, peace groups, the church and the judiciary; designation of the
institution having the greatest power in the country; preference for
opportunism or loyalty to principles in political life; attitude to
democracy; attitude to citizen involvement in government measures;
attitude to revolutionary changes of society and to fascism; attitude
to political parties (scale); preferred number of parties;
compatibility of Catholicism and voting for a communist or socialist
party; most important characteristics of an ideal party; classification
of the parties on a left-right continuum; party allegiance; most
important reasons for voting for a specific party and for not voting;
self-classification on a left-right continuum; personal change in party
voted for; assessment of personal proximity to the most important
parties; eligible party and party one cannot vote for; behavior at the
polls in the last election; company size.