Manuel Mora y Araujo

Manuel Mora y Araujo
Born	30 September 1937 Buenos Aires

Academic background
Alma mater	University of Buenos Aires
Academic work
Main interests	Politics and society; business management
Notable works	El voto peronista, Qué nos pasa a los argentinos, Liberalismo y democracia, Ensayo y error, El Poder de la conversación

Manuel Mora y Araujo is an Argentine sociologist^[1] and political analyst.^[2]^[3]

Manuel Mora y Araujo (born Buenos Aires, 30 September 1937) is an Argentine sociologist and political analyst; an expert in market research and analysis; founder of the consulting firms Mora y Araujo and Comunicación Institucional; author of a number of books and other published work in the fields of politics and sociology; dean, Torcuato di Tella University in Buenos Aires.

Biography

Manuel Mora y Araujo was born in Buenos Aires, 30 September 1937. He is currently married to Carmen D. Kenning, and he has four children from two previous marriages. He began his academic career in 1965. In 1984 he founded the market research company Mora y Araujo & Asociados (today, Ipsos-Mora y Araujo; part-owned by Ipsos since 2000);^[4] and in 1990 the public relations and communication consultancy Comunicación Institucional S.A. (today, Mora y Araujo Grupo de Comunicación). He currently holds two professorships at universities in Buenos Aires.

Studies

Law and Sociology at the University of Buenos Aires.
Graduate Fellow in Sociology, FLACSO (Santiago de Chile), 1963.
Postgraduate study at the Sorbonne University of Paris, (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes), 1964; and at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 1965.

Academic positions

Past

Lecturer in social research methodology, Department of Sociology, University of Buenos Aires, 1965.
Director of the Department of Sociology, Bariloche Foundation, 1967-1971.
Vicepresident of the Bariloche Foundation, 1969-1971.
Visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1983.
Director of the Social Research Centre, Torcuato di Tella Institute, 1980-82.
Director of the Postgraduate Programme, Torcuato di Tella Institute, 1983-84.
President of the board of directors of the Torcuato di Tella University, 1995-.

Current

Professor of Public Opinion Studies, Torcuato di Tella University.
Professor of Political Marketing and master's course in Political Science, CEMA University, 2000-.^[5]

Professional and business positions

Executive president, Ipsos-Mora y Araujo/Socmerc S.A. (market research and public opinion consultancy), 1984-2005.
Director, Mora y Araujo & Asociados Comunicación Institucional S.A. (public relations and communication consultancy), 1991-.
President, Investigación y Consultoría Agropecuaria S.A. (ICASA) (agricultural market research consultancy), 1998-.
President, BAE Negocios S.A., publisher of BAE newspaper, 1998-.

Voluntary (unpaid) positions

Founding member and former vice-president, Fundación Poder Ciudadano (civic institution dedicated to promoting public awareness), 1989-1996.
Founding member and former president, Fundación Compromiso (organisation for the promotion and training of social and non-profit organizations), 1994-1998.
President, Academic Committee of CEANA, Commission for investigating Nazi activities in Argentina, 1997-1999.
President, Committee for celebrating the centenary of the Argentinian Christian Youth Association, 2001-.
Unpaid member of many other organisations.

Writings

See: Works by or about Manuel Mora y Araujo in libraries (WorldCat catalog); Bookfinder; Mercado Libre (Argentina)

Author or co-author of many books including:
- El voto peronista (Eng: The Peronist Vote) (with Ignacio Llorente), Buenos Aires : Editorial Sudamericana, ©1980
- Qué nos pasa a los argentinos (Eng: What is happening to us Argentines) (with M E Aftalión and F A Noguera), Buenos Aires: Sudamericana/Planeta, ©1985
- Liberalismo y democracia (Eng: Liberalism and Democracy), Buenos Aires : Manantial, 1988
- The 1989 Argentine elections : post-election report : first results (with F A Noguera), Washington, DC : Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1989
- Ensayo y error (Eng: Trial and Error), Buenos Aires : Planeta, ©1991
- El Poder de la conversación (Eng: The Power of Conversation), Buenos Aires : La Crujía Ediciones, 2005
- Survey of Constitutional Culture. Argentina: an Anomic Society , National Autonomous University of Mexico, 2006
Political and sociological analysis in many specialist publications and newspapers in Argentina and other countries.
Articles in English:
- The position of Argentina in the system of international stratification, Studies in Comparative International Development, Springer (1972). p. 264-277
- Leadership wanted, The World Today, v59 n3 (March 2003). p. 25-26

References

↑ "Crimes past, crimes present". The Economist, 3 June 2004.
↑ "Argentines Dig Up Dirt That May Bury Reforms". Christian Science Monitor
↑ "Argentina set for national strike as economic woes deepen". By Charlie Devereux, Bloomberg News
↑ http://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/LatAmVA.pdf Ipsos strengthens its presence with two new acquisitions, Search Marketing (Chile) and Mora y Araujo (Argentina), Ipsos press release 20 July 2000
↑ . CEMA University http://alum.ucema.edu.ar/cgi-bin/profesores/lista_profes.pl?id=7907. Retrieved 26 February 2014. Missing or empty |title= (help)

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