Study title

Attitudes to selected political questions as well as personal value orientations and the social structure of sympathisers with the National Democratic Party of Germany {NPD}. Topics: most important problems in the FRG; national pride; interest in politics and political knowledge; sympathy scale for SPD, CDU/CSU, FDP, NPD, DKP; party preference; election behavior since 1949; aversion to certain parties; attitude to the grand coalition; judgement on issue-competence of the parties concerning economic policy, foreign policy, policies to the East, educational and social policy; judgement on the parties concerning their behavior toward trade unions, freedom of the press and freedom of speech, the statute of limitations for NS war crimes and authoritarian government policy; perceived influence of special interest groups as well as the churches on politics; attitude to recognition of the GDR, to demonstrations, to the death penalty, to the return of emigrants from the Third Reich, to the Third Reich, to the Empire and the Weimar Republic; judgement on National Socialism and the goals of the NPD; image of the NPD; sources of political knowledge; daily newspapers read; character traits of successful people and those who might become friends of the respondent; statement of the number of Jews murdered in the Third Reich; satisfaction with place of residence; judgement on education goals; changes of profession and job; exact determination of respondent´s profession; social origins; religiousness; judgement on the economic situation. Scales: Anomia, dogmatism, democracy, totalitarialism, authoritarian traditionalism, nationalism, right-wing extremist ideology, anti-semitism and ethnocentrism. Demography: age; sex; marital status; number of children; religious denomination; school education; professional position; employment; head of household; self-assessment of social class; refugee status. Interviewer rating: willingness of respondent to cooperate; length...