Günther Ogris

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Günther Ogris (born July 24, 1960 in Vienna ) is a social researcher in Austria . Together with Christoph Hofinger , he heads the private research institute SORA (Institute for Social Research and Consulting). In Austria, Ogris regularly creates projections and voter flow analyzes for ORF with SORA .

Career and activities

Günther Ogris studied first at the University of Vienna and later social science data analysis at the University of Essex .

He has been active in social research since the 1980s, and during his studies in Vienna he was a freelance researcher at the Institute for Empirical Social Research (IFES). There he initially worked on telephone surveys, in 1983 he wrote simple computer programs for the statistical recording and analysis of numerical material on behalf of the institute. He was involved with the Catholic youth as well as with the anti-nuclear, peace and ecological movements.

On behalf of the Austrian federal government, Ogris designed the communication strategy for Austria's accession to the European Union in 1994 . One of his most lucrative assignments was an election projection for public television in the Czech Republic : With the money from this assignment, he founded the SORA Institute in 1996, where he has been the scientific director and managing director since 1996. From 2000 to 2002 he was also the scientific director of the Austrian Institute for Youth Research ( ÖIJ ). Ogris has been a lecturer at various universities since 1993 and is the overall director of the SOQUA program - social science professional qualification, a cooperation between the non-university institutes SORA, ZSI and FORBA. Günther Ogris is currently Chairman of the University Council of the Sigmund Freud Private University in Vienna.

Ogris has been producing projections and election analyzes for Austrian radio regularly since 1986. For several years he has also appeared on the election evenings of the state parliament, federal presidential and national council elections in ORF special programs , in which he usually presents current projections and analyzes together with Christoph Hofinger from the ORF studio.

Günther Ogris is a member of the advisory board of the scientific open access journal Momentum Quarterly, which was founded in 2012 .

Fonts

  • With Christian Schaller u. a. (1998): Democracy and Democratic Theory (research report commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Science and Transport)
  • Campaign effects. An analysis of panel data from the 1995 election campaign , in: Fritz Plasser, Peter Ulram and Günther Ogris (eds.): Wahlkampf und voter decision (series of publications by the Center for Applied Political Research; 11), Vienna: Signum Verlag, 1996, p. 119 -151.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The silent high-resolution computer, portrait of Günther Ogris in the courier of October 9, 1994
  2. ↑ a b c The high computer of the nation, portrait of Günther Ogris in: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , September 30, 2006 page 6
  3. ↑ z. B. Special broadcast by ORF on the state elections in Salzburg in 1999, cf. e.g. Salzburger Nachrichten of March 8, 1999, page 3
  4. ↑ z. B. Special broadcast by ORF on the 2004 federal presidential election . Announcement of the broadcast, for example in the text “ Wahlkrimi im TV! “, In: TV-Media of April 21, 2004, page 10
  5. ↑ z. B. Special broadcast by ORF on September 28, 2008 on the National Council election, announcement in the text ORF: Eight hours live! in the newspaper Österreich, September 28, 2008, page 8
personal data
SURNAME Ogris, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna