Summary information

Study title

Attitudes on Current Questions of Domestic Policy (1991)

Creator

Institut für praxisorientierte Sozialforschung (IPOS), Mannheim

Study number / PID

ZA2120, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.2120 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Attitude to topics of domestic policy. Topics: Satisfaction with democracy; party preference (Sunday question); 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; judgement on the right to asylum; attitude to a limit to admission of politically persecuted and consistent deportation of those whose application for asylum was denied; contacts with foreigners; national pride; satisfaction with social conditions in the Federal Republic; perceived threat to public safety as well as assumed increase or decrease of this threat; perceived threat as well as concern from selected forms of crime. Attitude to Europe; preference for national or European solution of selected political problems; assessment of the advantageousness of EC membership and NATO membership for the Federal Republic; expectations of the common domestic market the end of 1992. Agreement with a UN mission (blue helmet action) of the Federal German Armed Forces or Federal Border Guard; political participation; estimated time required to achieve equivalent living conditions in Eastern and Western Germany; perceived danger to democracy from former SED functionaries in Eastern Germany or the entire Federal Republic; assessment of the credibility of the PDS; attitude to the PDS as member of the Federal Parliament; importance of dealing with the STASI and SED past of the GDR (scale); trust in the (Gauck) special office for STASI records; need for experts from the West for Eastern German administration and economy; approval of government activities against left extremist or right extremist groups; jeopardy to democracy from these groups; postmaterialism; self-classification on a left-right continuum. Demography: living together with a companion through life; academic degree; perceived jeopardy to one´s own job as well as the jobs...
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Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

05/1991 - 06/1991

Country

Germany

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Multi-stage stratified random sample

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Oral survey with standardized questionnaire

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

1992

Terms of data access

A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.

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