Study title

Political attitudes and political participation in reunified Germany. Cumulated data set from the data sets of four largely identical cross-section surveys at two different survey times in West and East Germany. Topics: judgement on current general economic situation as well as economic situation in the previous year; expected economic situation; knowledge about the importance of first vote and second vote; satisfaction with democracy; interest in politics; certainty of one´s own intent to participate in the election and one´s own voting decision (pre); type of voting as absentee ballot or polling place (post); same voting decision after knowledge about results of the election (post); party preference (Sunday question, first vote and second vote, post); voting decision for candidate (pre) and recall (post), voting decision for party (pre) and recall (post); respondent has answered the question regarding voting intent and voting decision; time of voting decision (post); most important reasons for one´s own voting decision (post); certainty of one´s own voting decision (pre); reasons for voting intent and not voting; eligible to vote 1998; estimated certainty of selected smaller parties taking seats in Federal Parliament (FDP, Bündnis90/Die Grünen, PDS, Republikaner, and DVU (pre); expected election winner in the Federal Parliament election (CDU/CSU or SPD, pre); evaluation of democracy as a conception of a state; personal financial situation; personal financial situation has improved and expectations for the next year; most important reasons for dissatisfaction with parties; coalition preference; satisfaction with result of Federal Parliament election (post); intensity of following the election campaign (post); responsivity: judgement on party politicians and their job as well as their relation to citizens (scale); most important problems of the country; issue ability of parties; external efficacy: possibilities of citizens to influence parties; internal...