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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...