Study title

Assessment of parties and politicians. Attitude towards political issues. Topics: eligibility to vote in the state election in North Rhine-Westphalia; most important political issues in North Rhine-Westphalia; intention to participate in the state election; intended voting type (polling station or postal vote); party preference (first vote and second vote); certainty of personal voting decision; importance of federal policy for the personal voting decision at state level; interest in the state election; voting behaviour in the last state election; coalition preference; attitude towards a government of SPD and CDU under the leadership of SPD, of CDU and SPD under the leadership of CDU, of CDU, Greens and FDP, of SPD, Greens and FDP, split B: to a government of SPD and Greens, of SPD, Greens and Left (end of split B), split A: a government of CDU and Greens, of CDU and FDP as well as SPD and FDP (end of split A); sympathy scale for selected parties at federal and state level; satisfaction with the state government of SPD and Greens, the individual parties SPD and Greens in the state government, the parties CDU, FDP and Piratenpartei in the opposition in the state parliament and the federal government of CDU/CSU and SPD (Skalometer); knowledge of the top candidates of the SPD and CDU for Prime Minister; sympathy scale for selected top politicians (Hannelore Kraft, Armin Laschet, Christian Lindner, Sylvia Löhrmann, Angela Merkel, Marcus Pretzell and Martin Schulz); party that pleases best and second best; political interest; preference for Hannelore Kraft or Armin Laschet as Prime Minister; split A: comparison of credibility, sympathy, expertise and energy of the two leading politicians Hannelore Kraft and Armin Laschet (end of split A); assessment of the economic situation of the federal state in general and in comparison with the other western German states; economic expectations for North Rhine-Westphalia; assessment of the personal economic situation at present...