Spring Study 1987

Judgement on the parties. Attitude to political questions. Political
and social orientation.

Topics: judgement on the current economic situation in the Federal
Republic and expected further development; judgement on the development
of unemployment; interest in politics; party inclination; party
inclination in principle or based on the situation; most important
criteria for party allegiance (scale); issue relevance and issue
competence of the parties; the party with the greatest ability to solve
the future problems of the Federal Republic; personal change in party
voted for; behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament
election; party preference (Sunday question and ballot procedure);
certainty of one´s voting decision; intent to participate in the
election; attitude to election of the FDP to make possible a coalition
government with the CDU; assessment of the willingmess of the SPD to
form a coalition with the Greens; acceptance of an SPD-Greens
coalition; social values (scale: significance of tradition,
achievement, spiritual change, citizen involvement, money, law and
justice); sympathy scale for the parties and top politicians;
self-classification as well as classification of the major parties on a
left-right continuum; religiousness; ties to church; fear of
unemployment or short time work; self-classification of social class;
social mobility; union membership and offices held; solidarity with
trade unions; eligible voters and age of children in the household.