SPD Party Office-Holder Survey 1991

Judgement on the SPD by party office-holders in the party. Topics:
Length of membership in the SPD as well as in local committee; contact
or cause for personally joining the party; manner of first contact on
the part of the party after joining; evaluation of selected reasons for
joining the SPD (scale); attitude to the SPD and evaluation of the
party from current view; functionary status according to hierarchy
levels, length of mandate up to now and readiness for further
candidacies; current and earlier memberships in other organizations and
current activity level; activities as works council or staff council
for civil servants, as union negotiator in a trade union or as member
in an SPD company group; participation in selected task forces on the
level of the local committee, the district association , the district
level or the state level; weekly time budget for party work, organized
according to individual activities; desired changes in time budget for
individual activities for the party; perceived work stress from party
work; satisfaction with communication at the various party levels;
participation in education events of the party; most important sources
of information about seminars; interest in principle in such seminars;
self-classification of personal commitment for the party; local
committee size; separating the members in active and passive members;
selected manner of greeting new members; behavior with party members
wanting to leave and who have resigned; most important reasons for
resignation in the last few months; forms of taking care of members;
type and extent of activities outside of the election campaign; current
and desired main focus in local committee work; type of member
information about local committee work; ways of motivating and
activating members; information on course of board elections in local
committee; quota regulation in filling board position; activities of
local committee and personal participation in these; judgement on
activities of local committee; judgement on selected reform
recommendations in party work; attitude to a study-group for older
people; evaluation of personal abilities that could easily be applied
for party work and areas in which respondent wishes support on the part
of the party or from outside; work areas in which more support on the
part of the party is desired; type and extent of media used for
information about political events; use of the members magazine
´Vorwaerts´; judgement on selected topics and articles in Vorwaerts;
general judgement on Vorwaerts and reason for judgement; evaluation of
reputation of the SPD as well as of the CDU/CSU in the population in
general as well as among selected social groups and institutions; image
of these parties as academic or worker party, reputation as party of
the self-employed or the civil service; inventiveness, nepotism and
disagreement of the parties as well as judgement on municipal political
program (scale); moral orientations and guidelines of personal conduct
(scale); personal importance of political tasks and issues (scale).