Federal Parliament Election 1976 (Panel: 2nd Wave, October 1975)

Judgement on parties and politicians in view of the next Federal Parliament election. Image of the candidates for chancellor.

Topics: 1. judgement on political problems and abilities to solve them: importance of political problems; issue competence of the parties; most important political events of the past; most important political task in the state and party with the greatest ability to solve this at state level; trust in selected government and democratic institutions and information on changes in trust in these institutions. 2. political interest and evaluation of parties: personal agreements with parties and politicians; assessment of the perceived agreement between selected politicians and their parties on a scale; image of the parties in form of social groups primarily represented by these parties; preferred candidate for chancellor to solve economic problems; image of the candidates for chancellor (semantic differentials); coalition preference; reasons for government participation by the FDP; party preference (ballot procedure for first vote and second vote); interest in politics. 3. judgement on the economic situation: judgement on the economic situation of the FRG as well as its development; judgement on personal economic situation; economic expectations for the future; expected price development and personal income development; expected development of personal standard of living; assessment of general economic situation as crisis and judgement on its significance; personal impact of the economic crisis; personal impact of short time work or unemployment; significance of the governing party for the economic situation; privileged and underprivileged social groups in the FRG; judgement on the development of security in the world and in the country after the conference on disarmament and security; level of regular savings deposits.