Study title

Political attitudes and satisfaction. Behavior at the polls and party inclination. Political self-classification. Topics: first wave: judgement on the current and future situation in the country; development of one´s own financial situation; interest in politics; memory of political events in the last year; behavior at the polls in the Federal Parliament election 1976; attitude to politicians, state and democracy; party preference (ballot procedure, first and second votes); certainty of one´s voting decision; orientation of voting decision on politicians or a party; issue relevance and issue competence of the parties; party inclination and party identification; inclination to a party temporarily or in principle; reasons for or against solidarity with a party (scales); sources of information for forming a political opinion; frequency of watching television news broadcasts; attitudes to NATO, nuclear energy, the environment, government achievements, prosperity, leisure time and work (scale); agreement of one´s own opinion with the goals of selected parties and politicians (scale); confidence in the future; social concepts and ideals; satisfaction with democracy; preference for federal chancellor (Strauss or Schmidt); self-classification on a left-right continuum; expected governing party or government coalition in the future; trust in governmental and political institutions; preferred forms of political participation; personal position in political controversies (questions on foreigners, job security, government indebtedness, foreign policy and price stability) and assumed positions of the CDU/CSU as well as of the SPD; assessment of the general significance of these controversies; interest in the election campaign and significance of the election campaign for one´s own voting decision; religiousness; self-assessment of social class; party inclination of spouse as well as of father; union membership; occupation of father; significance of religiousness in one´s...