A curriculum project on political party democracy in West Germany is described. Intended mainly for use in grades 9-10, the curriculum was developed by German social scientists, educators, and students from 1971 to 1973. The curriculum report is presented in two sections. Section I describes the learning package, tells who it is designed for, relates how the problems of party democracy were structured as learning material, and gives examples of how learning objectives and multimedia methods are interrelated. Section II specifies the four motives for the curriculum: party democracy as learning material, the curriculum as a multimedia-based course, the development of an objective-oriented teaching approach, and the party democracy teaching unit as an open curriculum. The first five chapters deal with the topic of election campaigns, and the last seven chapters focus on the political influence of the citizen over that of political parties in various situations including activities between elections, party platform establishment, and inner party functioning. Specific learning sequences are described. For example, the chapter titled "Election Campaign: A Publicity Spree?" provokes the student into looking more closely at the publicity stunts of an election campaign by testing seven campaign-related statements. (Author/DB)