Attitudes to Current Questions of Domestic Policy (1995)

Attitude to current topics of domestic policy. Topics: Satisfaction
with democracy; party preference; behavior at the polls in the last
Federal Parliament election; trust in public institutions (scale);
importance of federal institutions (scale); preferred development of
society (scale); most important goals of domestic policy; too many
foreigners in the Federal Republic; attitude to making it easier for
foreigners to acquire German citizenship; attitude to introduction of
dual citizenship; parent status or country of birth as preferred
criterion for citizenship; satisfaction with social conditions in the
Federal Republic (career chances, equal rights, legal system,
protection against crime, economic situation, job market and social
security); perceived threat to public safety; desire for stricter laws
or expanded powers for the police; desire for particular police
authority to combat organized crime; attitude to bugging of private
rooms by the police; attitude to elimination of checks of persons at
borders within Europe; expected increase in difficulty of combating
crime from elimination of border checks; attitude to possession of
smaller amounts of soft drugs; attitude to frequency of cases of
bribery in Germany; frequency of bribery in Germany in comparison to
other European countries; perceived personal threat from selected forms
of crime; political participation and readiness for protest behavior;
preference for national or Europe-wide solution of selected political
problems; assessment of the advantageousness of EU-membership of the
country; estimated time until achievement of equivalent living
conditions in Eastern and Western Germany; attitude to conclusion of
working on the GDR past; credibility of the political re-orientation of
the SED into the PDS; attitude to the 5%-clause for Federal Parliament
elections; attitude to the PDS taking seats in Federal Parliament
through the direct mandate regulation; self-classification on a
left-right continuum; attitude to government defense against radicals
from right and left; assessment of jeopardy to democracy from left-wing
extremist as well as from right-wing extremist groups and foreign
extremist organizations (scale); positive or negative contacts with
authorities; laws or government employees as cause for individual
problems with authorities; general assessment of the understandability
of laws; attitude to summer time; personal problems with the summer
time arrangement; judgement on the extent of portraying violence on
television; year of birth and month of birth; jeopardy to job of
respondent; union membership; religiousness. The following questions
were posed in Western Germany: jeopardy to job of a close person; party
inclination and party identification. The following questions were
posed in Eastern Germany: city size; attitude to acceptance of the
political system of the Federal Republic.