Hungarian 1990 Post-Election Survey

Attitudes to democracy and judgement on social and political
relationships after the parliament election in Hungary. Behavior at the
polls.
Topics: Social origins; religious affiliation; employment in the
agricultural or industrial sector; earlier membership in the
Socialist Workers' Party; index of material standard of living;
marital status; school instruction, occupational status and
employment position of spouse; description of the municipality by
means of identification numbers about education status and most
important employment branches of residents; city size and development
of number of residents; occupational position and Treiman Prestige
Score; Hungarian Prestige Score; superior function and range of
control; hours worked each week in primary employment and additional
employment times; autonomy in structuring course of work; frequency
with which respondent is addressed as superior; decision-making
responsibility; personal income and income of spouse; total family
income; religiousness; following one's conscience or obeying the law;
attitude to forms of democratic conduct, political protest and civil
disobedience; attitude to freedom of the press; attitude to
democratic rights, even for racists; attitude to police surveillance,
surveillance of telephone and mail as well as taking suspicious
criminals into custody; attitude to the principle "in doubt for the
accused"; general attitude regarding demonstrators, revolutionaries
and racists; attitude to increased taxation of the rich; preferred
measures of the government to support the economy such as e.g. wage
and price controls, expenditure reduction, job creation measures,
deregulation measures, subsidies and reduction of time worked each
week; attitude to increased expenditures of the government for
environmental protection, the public health system, the police, for
the school system, the military, pensions, for unemployment benefits
and for culture; preference for unemployment or inflation; assessment
of the power of the trade union, industry and the government in the
country; importance of trade unions; responsibility of the government
for full employment, fighting inflation, the public health system,
pensions, industrial growth, unemployment benefits and housing
supply; postmaterialism index (short form and long form); comparison
of the new government with the old one regarding its expertise,
political orientation, moral integrity and better representation of
the population; preference for detailed debates or rapid decisions by
government and parliament; participation of respondent in the first
election round on 25. March and in second election round on 8. April;
behavior at the polls; party election or candidate election; most
important influences on one's own voting decision; voting for the
same candidates in second election round; reason for changed behavior
at the polls; party preference (Sunday question); attitude to
privatization of national property; attitude to privatization of the
business of one's own employer; attitude to sale to foreign
companies; attitude to reprivatization of land; privatized social
system for Hungary; personal income from private undertakings;
preferred role of the government in electricity provision, in the
steel industry as well as with banks and insurance companies; anomy
scale after Schaar-McClosky; political interest and frequency of
political discussions with friends.