State Election in Rhineland-Palatinate 1996

Judgement on parties and politicians in Rhineland-Palatinate. Attitude
to current political questions at state level. Topics: eligibility to
vote in the state; city size; most important political problems in
Rhineland-Palatinate; intent to participate in the state election;
preference for absentee ballot; point in time and certainty of one´s
voting decision; behavior at the polls in the last state parliament
election; coalition preference; sympathy scale for selected parties at
federal and state level as well as for selected top politicians of the
state; satisfaction with achievements of the SPD-FDP state government,
the CDU as well as the Greens as opposition in the state parliament;
knowledge about the top candidates of the CDU and SPD for the office of
prime minister; party preference in the state; interest in politics;
preference for prime minister; judgement on the credibility, energy,
sympathy, sense of responsibility and expertise of Kurt Beck in
comparison to Johannes Gerster; judgement on the economic situation of
the state as well as one´s own economic situation; comparison of the
economic situation of the state with the rest of the western federal
territory; most able party in the areas economy, job creation,
environmental protection and coping with the future; evaluation of
achievements of the prime minister up to now; expected winner of the
state parliament election; expected election result for the FDP;
knowledge about the importance of the second vote; living together with
a partner; assessment of personal job security; jeopardy to job and
unemployment in close circle of friends; union membership;
religiousness; party inclination; party identification.