Spring Study 1983

Judgement on parties and politicians. Political attitudes.

Topics: judgement on the economic situation in the Federal Republic
and economic development of personal household; political interest;
general contentment with life; general judgement on conditions and
prospects for the future in the Federal Republic; most important
political tasks; party preference (ballot procedure and rank order
procedure); preferred government coalition after the election; behavior
at the polls in the last Federal Parliament election and personal
change in party voted for since 1949; satisfaction with the government
coalition and opposition; judgement on the coalition change of the FDP
1980; political effects of the change of government; satisfaction with
democracy in the Federal Republic; self-classification on a left-right
continuum; judgement on freedom and development possibilities in the
Federal Republic; general agreement of one´s own opinions with the top
politicians and parties; postmaterialism index; sympathy scale for the
parties; judgement on the political effects of the change of government
(scale); employer-friendly policies of the government; interest in the
FDP and the Greens taking seats in the next Federal Parliament; assumed
governing party after the next Federal Parliament election;
characterization of the parties; characteristics of a desirable society
(scale); issue relevance and issue ability of the parties; general
judgement on the job of politicians and parties; party inclination and
party identification; memory of measures and laws passed by the new
government; judgement on the change to the rent law and expected
effects on one´s own rent; religiousness; party preference of spouse;
union membership; solidarity with trade unions; fear of unemployment or
short time work in one´s family; self-assessment of social class;
assessment of the vote ratio in one´s residential area.

Interviewer rating: size of place of residence; length of interview;
date of interview.