Summary information

Study title

Attitudes to Current Questions of Domestic Policy (1995)

Creator

Berger, Manfred (Institut für Praxisorientierte Sozialforschung (IPOS), Mannheim )
Jung, Matthias (Institut für Praxisorientierte Sozialforschung (IPOS), Mannheim)
Roth, Dieter (Institut für Praxisorientierte Sozialforschung (IPOS), Mannheim)

Study number / PID

ZA2625, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.2625 (DOI)

Data access

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Abstract

Attitude 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; too many foreigners in the Federal Republic; attitude to making it easier for foreigners to acquire German citizenship; attitude to introduction of dual citizenship; parent status or country of birth as preferred criterion for citizenship; satisfaction with social conditions in the Federal Republic (career chances, equal rights, legal system, protection against crime, economic situation, job market and social security); perceived threat to public safety; desire for stricter laws or expanded powers for the police; desire for particular police authority to combat organized crime; attitude to bugging of private rooms by the police; attitude to elimination of checks of persons at borders within Europe; expected increase in difficulty of combating crime from elimination of border checks; attitude to possession of smaller amounts of soft drugs; attitude to frequency of cases of bribery in Germany; frequency of bribery in Germany in comparison to other European countries; 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 EU-membership of the country; estimated time until achievement of equivalent living conditions in Eastern and Western Germany; attitude to conclusion of working on the GDR past; credibility of the political re-orientation of the SED into the PDS; attitude to the 5%-clause for Federal Parliament elections; attitude to the PDS taking seats in Federal Parliament through the direct mandate regulation; self-classification on a left-right continuum;...
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Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

04/1995 - 05/1995

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 (ADM mastersample) of eligible voters in East and West (2 samples)

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

1995

Terms of data access

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

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