Study title

Recording the communication processes between the political system and the voter. Political attitudes; media usage; judgement on parties and politicians. Topics: Judgement on the current economic situation in the Federal Republic and expectation for the next year; interest in politics; judgement on political reporting in the daily newspapers preferred by the respondent as well as in selected television stations; classification of these media with preferential treatment of individual parties; television set in household; opportunity to receive RTL plus and SAT 1; most important problems in the Federal Republic; intent to participate in the election; party preference (first vote and second vote); knowledge about the significance of first vote and second vote; expected winner of the coming Federal Parliament election; sympathy scale for Federal Chancellor Kohl and candidate for chancellor Lafontaine; preference for federal chancellor; preference for governmental or market economy solution of the economic problems in the new states; assumed position of the individual parties on this question; attitude to restriction of the right to asylum, to the question of abortion as well as assumed positions of the parties; preference for new indebtedness or tax increase to finance German unity and assumed position of the parties; membership in associations, organizations and initiatives; rank order of the individual importance of these organizations; participation in activities and receipt of publications of the three most important organizations; assumed party allegiance of these organizations; selected associations, organizations as well as churches and their willingness to support the individual parties in the coming Federal Parliament election; party membership; intensity of contacts with the parties in the course of the election campaign in form of brochures, participation in election events or personal contacts with election helpers or candidates; frequency of political...