Young Voters in the Saarland

Topics: 1. Political knowledge and attitudes: expected influence of politics on personal life; personal areas of life, influenced by politics; satisfaction with democracy and the political system in the FRG. 2.

Attitude to the political parties and judgement on parties or politicians: good and bad sides of the parties; satisfaction scale for the CDU, SPD, and the FDP, party preference (ballot procedure); certainty of one´s voting decision for the coming state parliament election in the spring of 1980; assumed vote gains or loss of votes by the individual parties until the next election; preferred Saarland politician; knowledge about the political offices of selected Saarland politicians; rank order of the most important personal characteristics of politicians; sympathy scale as well as achievement scale for the parties and top politicians in the Saarland as well as also for Helmut Schmidt and Franz-Josef Strauss; profile of characteristics of the top candidates for the state parliament elections (semantic differential); issue ability of the top candidates and parties; judgement on the state government (scale); attitude to a continuation of the coalition; preferred state government; expected influence of the candidacy for chancellor of Strauss on the behavior at the polls in the state parliament election; sources of information about political questions; judgement on the advertising effectiveness of selected election campaign means; judgement on the achievements of the CDU-led state government in the last 20 years.