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Attitude towards parties and politicians after the parliamentary elections. Voting behaviour and political knowledge. Topics: Most important political issues in Germany; the most competent party to resolve these issues; significance of the ruling party for the respondent; assessment of the last parliamentary elections regarding correctness and fairness; judgment of the performance of the Federal Government during the last 3 years; representation of one’s personal views by a party and a favourite candidate; favourite candidate as well as party which represents the view of the respondent most likely; sympathy scale for the parties CDU, CSU, SPD, FDP, B90/Die Grünen, Die Linke/PDS and NPD as well as for Gerhard Schröder, Angela Merkel, Edmund Stoiber, Guido Westerwelle, Joschka Fischer, Gregor Gysi, Oskar Lafontaine and Udo Voigt; self-assessment on a left-right continuum as well as left-right classification of the parties; perceived differences between the parties; personal attention to the election campaign; satisfaction with democracy; satisfaction with the range of political offers and the proposals for solution by the parties; party affiliation and name of this party; party identification; participation at the last parliamentary elections in 2005 and recall (first vote and second vote); non voters were asked: party preference; consideration of an alternative second vote; second preference of the second vote; ineligible party; participation at the parliamentary elections in 2002 and recall (first vote and second vote); knowledge test of the parties` positions on selected issues: introduction of a so called Bürgerversicherung (health insurance), revision of the Hartz IV reforms as well as phasing out nuclear energy. Demography: Age (year of birth); sex; highest school education; marital status; living together with a partner; labour union membership; Labour union member in the household; membership in a businessman or employers´ federation, a farmers`...