Attitudes to Left-Wing and Right-Wing Radicalism (September 1969)

Attitude to radical political views.

Topics: Assumed influence of special interest groups on politics in
the FRG; judgement on politicians as parliamentary representative and
on social equal opportunities in the FRG; assessment of personal
participation in the advantages of the economic miracle; judgement on
the realization of democracy in the FRG; use of violence in political
conflict; sympathy scale for CDU/CSU, SPD, FDP, NPD, DKP, for a
class-struggle party and for a party outside of parliament; attitude to
homosexuality and the death penalty for sex criminals; assumed goals of
the NPD and the DKP; attitude to National Socialism, recognition of the
GDR, the Oder-Neisse Line, demonstrations against the Vietnam war, the
invasion in Czechoslovakia, the trade unions and the student movement
(scale); attitude to large private businesses, the international
interconnection of the German economy and to investments of American
companies in the FRG; attitude to innovations and the future; political
interest and political knowledge; tolerance; scales: dogmatism,
democracy and nationalism; criteria for professional success and
positively valued characteristics; change of political opinion;
personal opinion leadership; size of circle of friends; party
preference; membership in organizations and a party.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; religious denomination; school
education; vocational training; occupation; employment; household
income; size of household; head of household; self-assessment of social
class; social surroundings.