German Election Panel Study, 1980

<p>Political attitudes and judgement on parties as well as politicians. The contents of the three surveys (ZA Study Nos. 1323 - 1325) are each divided in two, in a block of questions identical at all survey times and a further block specific to the respective wave. Topics: 1. The part of the survey identical to all investigations: judgement on one's own economic situation and that of the Federal Republic; political interest; most important political event; party inclination and party identification; most important political task in the Federal Republic and most able party; satisfaction with the government coalition (SPD/FDP) and the opposition (CDU/CSU); party preference (Sunday question, first vote and second vote) as well as certainty of one's voting decision; self-classification and classification of the parties on a conservative-modern continuum; strength of the representation of personal political concepts in the individual parties; satisfaction with the political system in the FRG; behavior at the polls in the Federal Parliament election 1976; self-assessment of feeling of belonging to the group of Europeans, of Liberals, of Conservatives, of the Left, of Free Democrats, of Christian Democrats and of Social Democrats; approval of the FDP's departure from the Federal Parliament and most important reasons for this; judgement on the freedom of decision for the FDP in the choice of coalition; party preference of spouse; size of municipality; characteristics of place of residence; date of interview; length of interview. 2. Beyond this the following questions were posed in this wave: judgement on party efforts for selected population groups; the positive and negative sides of the SPD, CDU/CSU and of the FDP; adequate consideration of more recent problem areas by the established parties (protest potential); desire for further parties; attitude to separation of CDU and CSU as well as to a nation-wide expansion of the CSU; contacts with authorities and officials; judgement on the last contact with authorities; judgement on the efforts of the government for greater populism; expected opportunities for the parties to influence the government's populism; the party making the strongest efforts for populism; personal opinion allegiance and frequency of seeking advice; party preference of opinion leader; reliable sources and conversation partner in the search for information on political questions; personal intent to participate in the election and party preference at the state level (Sunday question).</p>