Saarland Study

Judgement on parties, state politicians and formation of a government
in the Saarland shortly after the state parliament election.

Topics: most important tasks in the Saarland; detailed judgement on
the issue ability of parties and politicians; preferred and rejected
Saarland politicians; degree of familiarity and sympathy scale for the
most important state politicians, for Prime Minister Roeder and for the
CDU, SPD and FDP relative to the Saarland and the Federal Government;
satisfaction with state government and opposition; image of the
parties; preferred candidate for the office of prime minister in new
elections; preferred solution to alleviate the difficulties in
formation of a government in the Saarland and to alleviate the
stand-off in the state parliament; preferred advertising means and
information channels in the election campaign; party preference and
behavior at the polls in the last state parliament election in October;
reasons for different personal behavior at the polls at federal and
state level.

Interviewer rating: residential area of respondent; district code.