Attitudes on Current Questions of Domestic Policy (1993)

Attitudes to current topics of domestic policy. Topics: Satisfaction
with democracy; party preference; behavior at the polls in the last
Federal Parliament election; trust in public institutions (scale);
importance of federal institutions (scale); preferred development of
society (scale); most important goals of domestic policy. Attitude to
foreigners and the right to asylum; assumptions about abuse of the
right to asylum; attitude to a limit to admission for applicants for
political asylum and to consistent deportation of those whose
application for asylum was denied; closeness to accomodations for
applicants for political asylum and problems with applicants for
political asylum; necessity of foreign workers for the German economy.
Satisfaction with social conditions in the Federal Republic;
satisfaction with the constitution; perceived threat to public safety;
desire for stricter laws or expanded powers for the police; perceived
personal threat from selected forms of crime. Political participation
and readiness for protest behavior; preference for national or
Europe-wide solution of selected political problems; assessment of the
advantageousness of EC membership of the country; attitude to an
increased acceptance of responsibility in world politics by the Federal
Republic. Estimated duration until achievement of equivalent living
conditions in Eastern and Western Germany; attitude to putting an end
to processing of the GDR past; conducting social conflicts with
violence. Self-classification on a left-right continuum; reduction in
election turnout as danger to democracy; election turnout reduction as
protest behavior or reduction of interest in politics; classification
of voters for right-wing radical parties as dedicated supporters or
protest voters; importance of the problem of right-wing radicalism;
stricter laws to combat right-wing extremism; attitude to government
defense against radicals of right and left; assessment of the jeopardy
to democracy from left-wing extremist and right-wing extremist groups
and organizations (scale); attitude to the application of Berlin to
conduct the Olympic Games; preference for a monthly increase in fees or
increased advertising to finance the television stations ARD {First
German Television Network} and ZDF {Second German Television Network};
accepted extent and point in time for advertising on public television;
attitude to advertising in the breaks in sports broadcasts; judgement
on the extent of presentation of violence on television and attitude to
so-called reality TV. Jeopardy to job of respondent or a close person;
union membership; religiousness; party inclination and party
identification.