2206|CITIZENS AND THE STATE (I) (ISSP)

— Opinion on compliance with the laws. — Forms of protest that should be allowed to fight against government measures that provoke strong opposition: rally, demonstration or strike. — Willingness to participate in a rally or demonstration to protest against some measure of the Government. — Number of times in the last five years, to protest against the government, he has attended rallies or participated in demonstrations. — Opinion on whether extremists or supporters of revolutionary methods can be allowed to hold rallies or publish books to spread their ideas. — Type of threat that can pose to citizens, that the State can easily collect all kinds of data related to them. — Degree of agreement with the sentence: The state has a responsibility to reduce the gap between people who have high incomes and those who have low incomes. — Degree of agreement with measures that the Government could take in relation to the economy. — Opinion on which chapters of public spending should be spent more or less, although to spend ‘much more’ it would be necessary to increase taxes. — Opinion on the degree of power that the unions, the company and the Government have in Spain. — Degree of agreement with the Government’s responsibility to maintain the ‘welfare state’. — Degree of interest in politics. — Degree of agreement with phrases on the influence and interest in politics of the average citizen and degree of effectiveness of politicians and senior officials. — Assessment of the current democracy in Spain. — Opinion on the possibility that the government could choose between lowering taxes or spending more on social benefits and public services. — Valuation of taxes relating to: tax burden/income. — Opinion on the privatisation of electricity, hospitals and banks. — Priority between reducing inflation or reducing unemployment. — Priority between reducing the public deficit or maintaining the same public services and social benefits, in the hypothetical case of maintaining the same tax burden. — Amount of taxes that should be paid annually by people with income from: million and a half, three, six and twelve million pesetas. — I remember voting in the 1993 general election. — Grounds for abstaining from voting. — Affiliation to: citizen association, political party or trade union. — Scale of political ideology of the interviewee.