Study title

Political attitudes before the state parliament elections 1974 in the states Schleswig-Holstein, Rhineland-Palatinate, North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria and Hesse. Judgement on parties and politicians. The questionnaire consists of a nationally uniform part and a state-specific part. Topics: 1. nationally uniform part: judgement on the economic situation and assumed economic development; extent to which politically informed and political interest; attitude to tax reform; spectrum of parties voted for by respondent in Federal Parliament elections since 1949; behavior at the polls in the Federal Parliament election 1972; personal change in party voted for; party preference and party ties; preferred federal chancellor; judgement on the government Schmidt/Genscher as well as the relationship of the FDP to the SPD; party inclination (split); changes of party sympathies in the course of time; most important political tasks in the FRG; preferred CDU/CSU politicians in leading positions; issue ability of the parties and selected politicians; sympathy scale for the SPD, CDU/CSU and the FDP; judgement on the Young Union as well as the Jusos {Young Socialists}; assessment of personal political location on the question of price stability and securing jobs as well as assumed attitudes of top politicians and parties; judgement on current foreign policy relations and their significance for the future; parties one cannot vote for; assessment of changes within a party since 1969; assumed identity of interests of the parties represented in the Federal Parliament; attitude to rejection of draft laws by the CDU/CSU majority in the Federal Upper House; judgement on Schmidt as federal chancellor (scale). 2a. State-specific part: judgement on the economic situation of the state; degree of familiarity of state politicians; knowledge about the party affiliation of selected politicians; preferred prime minister; profiles of characteristics of the prime minister candidates;...