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Political career, conception of oneself, political orientation and attitudes to the EC of party convention delegates in European countries. Topics: Delegate status; delegate federation; public officialship and kind of office; year of party-joining; change of party membership; previous party; party officialship; kind of office, level (city level or national level) and function; name of the last committee attended; controversies among participants concerning decisions; way of decision; time devoted to party activities (party time allocation); intra-party tendencies. Preferred chairmanship successor; frequency of political discussions in respondent’s home and themes of parents political discussions; party membership of parents; parents support of parties; public officialship of parents; occupation of parents; economic conditions of respondent’s family in his childhood; town size; metropolitan residence; local employment; local party organization: number of members in local party organization; number of active male and female members; age distribution of active members; development of membership over the last five years; frequency of general meetings; meeting place; discussion topics; interest in local, national, European, international and intra-party matters; controversies in advance of the party convention; participation in previous conferences; preparation activities for the party conference; information sources; importance of conference functions; preferred conduct with dissent between the majority decision of the basis in comparison to party leadership; decision behaviour in case of divergence between standpoint of party conference decision and standpoint of party group in national parliaments; influence of a delegate on decisions pre-conference and at the conference itself; speech at the party conference; sympathy scale for other parties and for selected associations; attitude towards the party role concerning principles, votes, pragmatism and ideology;...