Summary information

Study title

Pre-Election Study 1994 (Trend Investigations)

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)
Gibowski, Wolfgang G. (Bundespresseamt Bonn)
Kaase, Max (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin)
Klingemann, Hans-Dieter (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin)
Küchler, Manfred (Hunter College New York)
Pappi, Franz U. (Universität Mannheim)
Semetko, Holli A. (Syracuse University )

Study number / PID

ZA2599, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.2599 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Judgement on parties and politicians. Political questions. European Union. Media usage in view of the Federal Parliament election. Election advertising and election campaign. Topics: The following questions were posed in at least one - often however in several surveys - of the 13 studies cumulated into this data set: city size; most important political problems in Germany; party preference (Sunday question); intent to participate in the election; absentee ballot; preferred candidate and preferred party; certainty of one´s voting decision; behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament election; point in time and possible re-orientation in the voting decision for the Federal Parliament election 1990; interest in election of the Statt {instead of} Party in the Federal Parliament election; attitude to a one-party government by CDU/CSU or SPD; perceived jeopardy to recovery from an SPD-Greens government; coalition preferences; attitude to a statement of willingness to form a coalition by the FDP as well as by the SPD before the next Federal Parliament election; attitude to an SPD-Greens minority government in the Federal Parliament with the help of the PDS; sympathy scale for the parties, the CDU/CSU-FDP Federal Government, the parties part of the government, the opposition and top politicians; preference for federal chancellor; perceived harm for the country in the case of chancellorship of Scharping as well as Kohl; effects of the Kohl statement, not to run for office in the next Federal Parliament election; the right people in politics; preference for new or experienced politicians; comparison of the two candidates for chancellor regarding their credibility, their energy, their sense of responsibility, their social as well as honest attitude, their winner type, their strength of achievement, their leadership and their ability to solve economic problems of the country; satisfaction with democracy and the condition of society in Germany; judgement on the...
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Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

02/1994 - 10/1994

Country

Germany

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Probability: Simple random
Random selection according to the RLD procedure (randomize last digit)

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Telephone interview
Telephone interview 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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