Study title

Attitude to current topics of domestic policy. Topics: Satisfaction with democracy; party preference (Sunday question); behavior at the polls in the last Federal Parliament election; trust in public institutions (scale); importance of federal institutions (scale); preferred development of society (scale); most important goals of domestic policy. Attitude to foreigners and the right to asylum; assessment of abuse of the right to asylum; attitude to an ammendment to the constitution on the right to asylum; attitude to a limit to admission of politically persecuted and consistent deportation of those whose application for asylum was denied; contacts with foreigners; necessity of foreign workers for the German economy. Satisfaction with social conditions in the Federal Republic; satisfaction with the constitution; perceived threat to public safety as well as perceived increase in general crime; perceived personal threat from selected forms of crime. Political participation and readiness for protest behavior; attitude to Europe; assessment of the advantageousness of EC membership for the Federal Republic; preference for national or Europe-wide solution of selected political problems. Need for additional qualified employees from the West to strengthen public administration in Eastern Germany; estimated time required until achievement of equivalent living conditions in Eastern and Western Germany; importance of dealing with the STASI and SED past in the GDR; the one responsible for comeing to terms with the GDR past; trust in the (Gauck) special office for STASI records; attitude to the right to access to one´s own STASI file; preference for a comprehensive or minor ammendment to the constitution. Self-classification on a left-right continuum; classification of voters for right-wing radical parties as dedicated supporters or protest voters; importance of the problem of right-wing radicalism and assessment of greater activities in West or East Germany; judgement...