Attitudes on Current Questions of Domestic Policy (1990) - GDR

Attitude to questions of domestic policy.

Topics: satisfaction with the development of democracy in the GDR;
party preference (Sunday question); behavior at the polls in the last
election; evaluation of different social systems regarding economic
growth, achievement-oriented society, market economy, environmental
questions, citizen involvement, individual provision for old age and
securing the future through technical progress; issue relevance;
attitude to the right of foreigners to vote in municipal elections and
to the right to asylum; contacts with foreigners at work; national
pride; desired flag and desired National Anthem for a united Germany;
satisfaction with social conditions in the GDR; West Germans as
Germans; security on the streets and plazas; perceived increase in
crime; self-assessment on a left-right continuum; attitude to
unification of the two German nations and judgement on unification
progress; advantages and disadvantages for the citizens of the GDR
through unification; preferred capital city; estimated time for the
achievement of an equivalent standard of living in east and west;
visits to the west since the fall of the wall; interest in trips and
vacation in the Federal Republic; interest in a partner city in the
Federal Republic; perceived danger to democracy from former SED
functionaries in important functions; judgement on the name change of
the SED to PDS and approval of taking seats in parliament by the PDS;
attitude to the Oder-Neisse Line; relation with relatives on the other
side of the Oder-Neisse Line; most important political tasks in the GDR.