| Autor: |
Kaase, Max, Pfetsch, Barbara |
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International Review of Sociology; Jul2001, Vol. 11 Issue 2, p125-147, 23p |
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The article examines the polling system and democratic process in Germany. There has always been a symbiotic relationship between democratic elections and survey research. The introduction of new polling methods by the American occupation forces in post-war Germany from 1945 on was associated with hopes for the democratization of Germany. Surveys are the principal method for collecting information in market and consumer research. Survey research with its broad range of topics has become a comprehensive, normal part of the self-observation of modern societies, not least of all in the minds of their citizens. People are also coming into increasing contact with polling in the role of respondent. For Germany, a survey series initiated by the Berlin Forsa Institute records that in 1991 almost every third person had been reached at least once by a survey and that about a quarter of these people had been interviewed more than once. In 2000, almost half of the West Germans had been contacted at least once by a survey; 15 years earlier the share of respondents interviewed at least once was only 19% of the adult population. |
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