Election to the House of Representatives in Berlin 1995

Judgement on parties and politicians shortly before the election to the
House of Representatives in Berlin. Election preferences.

Topics: Eligibility to vote in the eastern or western part of Berlin;
most important political problems in Berlin; intent to participate in
the election in the impending election to the House of Representatives
and preference for absentee ballot or election in the polling station;
party preference; certainty of one´s voting decision; behavior at the
polls in the last House of Representatives election; coalition
preference; sympathy scale for the parties at Federal as well as state
level; satisfaction with the parties in the Berlin Senate as well as in
opposition; sympathy scale for the top candidates Diepgen and Stahmer
as well as for Kohl and Scharping; preferred mayor; comparison of the
two election candidates for the office of mayor regarding their
credibility, energy, sympathy, their sense of responsibility and their
expertise; judgement on achieving of equivalence or remaining
differences between East and West Berlin; judgement on the current
economic situation of the city as well as the individual economic
situation; expected economic development in Berlin; judgement on the
issue ability of the parties in economic questions, traffic policy and
domestic policy; assessment of the credibility of the SED re-named PDS;
expected winner in the House of Representatives election; assumption
about probable government composition after the election; judgement on
different coalition compositions after the election; expected
overcoming the 5%-hurdle by the FDP; assessment of one´s own job
security; union membership; religiousness; close persons whose job is
endangered or are unemployed; party inclination and party
identification. The following question was posed to West-Berliners:
justified demand of the East-Berliners for improvement in living
conditions. The following question was posed to East-Berliners:
satisfaction with achievement of equivalent living conditions in East
Berlin.