Summary information

Study title

The Post Communist Citizen East Germany 1992

Creator

Fuchs, Dieter (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung )
Klingemann, Hans-Dieter (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung)
Roller, Edeltraud (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung)
Weßels, Bernhard (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung)

Study number / PID

ZA3219, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.3219 (DOI)

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Abstract

Political culture, political and economic orientations during the transition to democracy. Topics: Political activities; watching news on TV; reading newspaper articles about politics; meaning of democracy (scale); left-right-self placement; meaning of "left" and "right"; member of a political party, associations, religious organization or trade union; satisfaction with democracy; development of the economic situation of the country in the last years and assumed changes in the next year; present corruption; conditions of the working class, peasantry, middle class and entrepreneurs during the time of present and previous regime; income differences; financial situation compared with that of the parents in former times; speed of changes; satisfaction with the previous and present government; influence on decisions at workplace; working husband/wife; influence on family decisions; satisfaction with family situation; attitudes to homosexuals, abortion and working women; trust in institutions; medical care covered by the state; limits on the amount of money that one can earn; depending on the government vs. taking care of themselves; environment vs. industrial growth; the most important conflicts in the country; power of the government; running the country for the benefit of all people; trust in government; role of elections and parliament; voting and voting decision in the last election; reasons for not voting; voting for the same party in the next election; duties of the governments; inflation vs. unemployment; decisions which violate people's interests; prospects of democracy in the country; political situation and its development next year; satisfaction with democracy; role of political parties; preferred country to live in; privatization of companies and agricultural land; character of capitalist and socialist economy; management of industrial enterprises; party and political movement affiliation; reasons for joining a strike; unconventional political...
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Methodology

Data collection period

11/1992

Country

Germany

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Multi stage sample

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Interview with standardized questionnaire

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

2000

Terms of data access

A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.

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