Kiel Election Study 1983

Topics: political interest; most important political tasks in the Federal Republic and issue competence of parties as well as politicians; judgement on current economic situation and assessment of further economic development of the Federal Republic; party preference (first vote and second vote, ballot procedure); personal change in party voted for; importance of election result for further development of the Federal Republic; classification of parties with selected occupational groups for which they make particular efforts; self-classification as well as classification of parties and politicians on a left-right continuum; judgement on productivity and sympathy scale for the most important parties and the top politicians; party inclination and party identification; reasons for and time of change of personal party inclination; attitude to nuclear power plants, the installation of new weapon systems and the peace movement; attitude to house occupation; assessment of the extent of the housing problem in the Federal Republic; preferred conduct of the governments regarding house occupiers; most important political goals; judgement on the conduct of the politicians in the Federal Parliament election campaign; most important sources of information about politicians and parties; preference for chancellor.

Residents in Schleswig-Holstein were asked the following additional questions regarding the state parliament election: issue competence of the state parties and state politicians; party preference regarding the state parliament election; personal change in party voted for; behavior at the polls in the last state parliament election (question of recall); importance of the election result for further development of Schleswig-Holstein; left-right classification of the state parties; assessment of productivity and sympathy scale for the state parties; judgement on the election campaign in Schleswig-Holstein; preferred prime minister.