Political Attitudes and Social Moral Orientations in the Federal Republic 1990

Attitude to political questions.

Topics: interest in politics; party preference (Sunday question,
ballot procedure and rank order procedure); behavior at the polls in
the last Federal Parliament election; sympathy scale for the parties
and for the top politicians; satisfaction with the political system in
the Federal Republic; attitude to a possible absolute majority of the
SPD or the CDU/CSU; preferred forming of a coalition; satisfaction with
the achievement of the Federal Government altogether and its individual
coalition partners as well as with the opposition (scale); preference
for federal chancellor; assessment of the position of the FDP in the
government coalition; most important political goals; issue competence
of the parties and alternative coalition partners; attitude to
recognition of the Oder-Neisse Line and to reunification of the two
German nations; preferred alliance orientation of a reunited Germany;
expected disadvantages from emigrants at work as well as in
house-hunting; residential status; advantageousness of reunification
for the West German population; attitude to the 35-hour work week and
to further operation of nuclear power plants; necessity of American
military forces for security in the Federal Republic and perceived
threat from the Soviet Union; attitude to dissolution of the Warsaw
Pact and NATO; judgement on the chances for a reformed communism and on
the democratic intents of Gorbachev; preferred development of society
(scale); classification of the parties and self-classification on a
left-right continuum; postmaterialism; judgement on the relation of
church and trade unions to politics; judgement on the relation of
politicians to the citizens; assumed election winner in the next
Federal Parliament election; attitude to an election success by the
Republicans; fear of unemployment; national pride; union membership;
religiousness; diploma or government examination; party inclination;
district code; year of birth; month of birth.