On the Political Situation in Hesse in April 1986

Judgement on parties and politicians before the state parliament
election in Hesse.

Topics: political interest; intent to participate in the state and
Federal Parliament election; party preference (Sunday question and rank
order procedure) at state and federal level; certainty of one´s voting
decision; party one can still vote for; behavior at the polls in the
last state and Federal Parliament election; parties one cannot vote
for; knowledge about the parties represented in the state parliament
and the governing parties; sympathy scale for the parties at state and
federal level; satisfaction with state government, the governing
parties as well as opposition; sympathy scale for federal and state
politicians; agreement of personal interests with those of the parties;
preferred government coalition and preferred prime minister;
self-classification as well as classification of the parties on a
left-right continuum; judgement on the general economic situation in
Hesse and comparison with the economic situation in the rest of the
Federal Republic; assumed economic development of Hesse; ability of the
state or Federal Government to improve the economic situation of the
state; issue relevance and issue ability of the parties and possible
coalitions; attitude to the comprehensive school; school-age children
in household; judgement on support of the Rhine-Main area or the other
areas by state government; ability of the state government to influence
economic development of parts of the state; attitude to the coalition
government of the SPD with the Greens in Hesse as well as to a possible
SPD-Greens coalition at the federal level; assessment of the stability
of the SPD-Greens coalition; preferred coalition behavior of the FDP;
attitude to an SPD-Greens coalition after the next state parliament
election; attitude to selected social demands and concepts of an ideal
society (scale); assumed election winner and preferred federal
chancellor in the next Federal Parliament election; attitude to the
coalition change of the FDP in the fall of 1982; self-classification of
social mobility.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; religious denomination;
frequency of church attendance; school education; occupational
position; employment; respondent is head of household; size of
household; characteristics of head of household; party inclination;
party identification; union membership; number of persons in household
18 years old and older; comparison of personal occupational position or
that of husband or that of one´s own father; characterization of
residential surroundings according to occupational groups.

Interviewer rating: city code; place of interview; date of interview.