Attitudes to Left-Wing and Right-Wing Radicalism (September 1969)

Topics: Assumed influence of special interest groups on politics in the FRG; judgement on politicians as parliamentary representative and on social equal opportunities in the FRG; assessment of personal participation in the advantages of the economic miracle; judgement on the realization of democracy in the FRG; use of violence in political conflict; sympathy scale for CDU/CSU, SPD, FDP, NPD, DKP, for a class-struggle party and for a party outside of parliament; attitude to homosexuality and the death penalty for sex criminals; assumed goals of the NPD and the DKP; attitude to National Socialism, recognition of the GDR, the Oder-Neisse Line, demonstrations against the Vietnam war, the invasion in Czechoslovakia, the trade unions and the student movement (scale); attitude to large private businesses, the international interconnection of the German economy and to investments of American companies in the FRG; attitude to innovations and the future; political interest and political knowledge; tolerance; scales: dogmatism, democracy and nationalism; criteria for professional success and positively valued characteristics; change of political opinion; personal opinion leadership; size of circle of friends; party preference; membership in organizations and a party.

Demography: age; sex; marital status; religious denomination; school education; vocational training; occupation; employment; household income; size of household; head of household; self-assessment of social class; social surroundings.