Study title

Political attitudes and political participation in united Germany. Cumulated data set from the data sets of two largely identical cross-section surveys at two different survey times in East and West Germany. Topics: The questions listed below were posed in at least one survey: judgment on current general economic situation as well as economic situation in previous year; expected economic situation; personal economic situation; satisfaction with democracy; interest in politics; certainty of one´s own intent to participate in the election and one´s voting decision; voting behavior in previous Federal Parliament elections; manner of voting as absentee ballot or polling station; same voting decision after knowledge about results of election; party preference (Sunday question, second vote); most important reasons for dissatisfaction with the parties; coalition preference; responsivity: judgment on party politicians and their work as well as their relation with citizens (scale); power orientation of political parties; differences between the parties; too much influence of parties in society; corruption of parties and politicians; necessity of professional politicians; most important problems of the country; issue relevance and issue ability of the parties; attitude towards Politics and Society (scale: complexity of politics, the right to strike, proximity of politicians to citizens, possibilities of citizens to influence parties and government (efficacy), understanding of democracy); sympathy scale for CDU, CSU, SPD, FDP, Alliance 90/the Greens, Republicans and PDS; postmaterialism (Inglehart index); trust in institutions: trust in Federal Parliament, the Federal Constitutional Court, Federal Government, the judiciary, the police, administration, churches, parties, the Federal German Armed Forces; Chancellor preference; own political participation; self-classification on a left-right continuum; most important group or representation of interests; feeling of being...