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Politisches Verhalten und politische Einstellungen
Information communication (media use) in general. Restrictions on information communication in general. Sociopolitical attitudes. Communication motives. Online access. Restrictions interpersonal and participatory communication. Quality assessments. 2002 federal election. information communication on September 11, 2001. Iraq. Anti-Americanism. Hartz IV. State elections. Climate change. Crises. Citizens´ initiatives. Subjects: 1. The following subjects were asked identical questions repeatedly at each survey time point: Information communication (media use) in general: television set in the household; reception frequency of news programs on television; most frequently watched news program; reception frequency of political TV magazines; number of days per week with daily newspaper use; interest in the topics of politics, economics, local affairs; reading of news magazines or weekly newspapers; query on news magazines or weekly newspapers read (Spiegel, Focus, Die Zeit); assessment of the economic situation in the country; interest in politics; online access: General online access; online access at home; most frequently used online access; time of first Internet use; duration of use per week; memberships (trade union, party and name of party, citizens´ initiative, environmental organization or animal protection organization, other organizations, name of other organizations); active or passive membership; Internet activities related to active participation; political participation: participation in a demonstration and in a public meeting and frequency of participation in the past year; frequency of own speaking at a public meeting; contacts with politicians (online, in person, by phone, or by mail) and frequency of contact; online letters to the editor in the past year and frequency of online letters to the editor; traditional letters to the editor in the past year and frequency of traditional letters to the editor on political issues; participation in online signature gathering and frequency of participation; participation in traditional signature gathering and frequency of participation; political donations. Demography: highest educational attainment; vocational training attainment; employment; age (year of birth); nationality; net household income; income group; party affiliation; party identification; occupational status; household size; sex; federal state. 2. In at least one or more waves, the following questions were asked: Duration of daily television use in minutes; daily newspapers read; interest in the topics of culture, sports and advertisements; use of the weekly newspaper Die Woche; recognition among friends for personal information about politics; political information from the newspaper enables participation and commitment to others (altruism); recognition among friends for personal information about politics in the media as well as personal benefit; restrictions Information conventional (foregoing newspaper for reasons of cost and lack of time, political reports in the newspaper are difficult to understand (political competence), too much effort); assessment of personal economic situation; general trust in persons; trust in institutions (Bundestag, authorities, federal government, courts, police, parties); opinion of media coverage (frequent reports on political scandals, negativism with regard to parties and politicians, support for democracy); satisfaction with democracy (school grades); value orientation (personal freedom versus security, personal freedom versus equality, security versus equality); value orientation (scale: respecting law and order, acknowledging others´ opinions, doing what others do, environmental awareness, Christian norms and values, pleasure, success, being technically up-to-date, thriftiness, doing nice things, having own children); psychological self-characterization based on pairs of opposites (Big 5); self-ranking left-right (split: right-left); media influence: Assessment of the political influence of the media and its development; media versus citizens have more influence on politics; political attitude (low responsiveness of politicians, low political influence conviction as citizens); restriction political effort and political competence; importance of selected communication motives: personal benefit, politics must pay off, altruism: personal commitment to others and social commitment, recognition: having a say in political discussions, political expertise is valued, ...
Emmer, M., Vowe, G., & Wolling, J. (2014). Political Online Communication (ZA5227; Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. GESIS, Cologne.
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