Political Action I (An Eight Nation Study)

Value orientation and political attitudes. Topics: Political interest; importance of political problems; judgement on the effectiveness of political activities; personal political activities and personal conventional political participation; attitude to repressive measures by the government; concept of democracy; trust in the government; attitudes to the younger generation; personal understanding of the terms ´left´ and ´right´; self-classification on a left-right continuum; good and bad sides of the most important parties; party preference and voting behavior; sympathy scale for parties and social groups, including among others the police, civil servants, big businessmen, unions, protesting students, ethnic minorities and the women´s movement; materialist or post-materialist value orientation; job orientation and job situation; social origins; number and sex of siblings; religiousness; parental political preferences; actual and desired income; self-estimation of one´s social class.

For the young: topics of discussion and degree of agreement with parents; reference groups. Indices: political participation, political orientation, satisfaction with life, post-materialism, social and political attitudes. Demography: age; sex; marital status; number of children; religious denomination; school education; vocational training; occupation; professional position; employment; income; household income; head of household; party inclination; party identification; political discussion; membership.