Christoph Hofinger

Christoph Hofinger (born 1967 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian social researchers. Together with Günther Ogris he manages since 1996 the private research institute SORA Institute for Social Research and Consulting. Hofinger studied German literature, journalism, psychology, and sociology in Vienna. In Austria he created with SORA regular projections and voter flow analyzes for ORF.

Activity and Reception

Hofinger studied German literature, journalism and psychology at the University of Vienna and then completed a post-graduate course in sociology at the Institute for Advanced Studies. Since 1989, the work in the social and policy research.

Known to a wider public Hofinger is from the ORF special programs to state elections, President and House of Representatives, where he usually presents during the election evening together with Günther Ogris from the ORF studio current projections and analyzes. In addition Hofinger provides for a number of years ago the Work Climate Index, finds strong echoes in the Austrian media.

As a leading pollster Austria Hofinger occurs mainly in election campaigns regularly in public, in television interviews and in the press. After the state elections in Carinthia in 2009, when the election results significantly deviated from the previously published surveys, Alliance for the Future politicians like Herbert Scheibner or Stefan Petzner Hofingers intervened massively Institute, accused him of "manipulation" and deliberate " falsification " of surveys. Hofinger spoke of " business reputation " and announced that it would consider a court action. Hofinger manifests itself in the media regularly critical of the dominant position of the demo copy in political reporting, as in the oft-quoted statement: " Who published surveys, to say the error rate to do so. Also, if it makes the whole thing boring and uneventful. "

The weekly magazine Falter Hofinger describes as an "exception to the pleasant kind " among pollsters, as he was " mostly accurate with his predictions " lie and she knew " to explain unobtrusive ".

Positions in international organizations

Teaching activities

Publications (selection )

  • With Gerlinde Manz-Christ ( Ed.) ( 2011): Emotions in Politics and Campaigning. How Neuroscience, Linguistics and Social Psychology Change the Political Profession. Prestige Books, Sydney. ISBN 978-8-178-51086-6.
  • With Günther Ogris and Eve Zeglovits (2008): " How to lose an election " in: Thomas Hofer, Barbara Tóth (ed.): ". Strategies Election 2008 - Winner - Sensations", p.160 ff
  • With Peter Filzmeier, Flooh Perlot and Ptaszyńska Aleksandra (2009 ): "The Parliamentary elections 2008: Results and choice behavior ", in: Peter Filzmaier, Peter Plaikner, Karl Duffek (ed.): " keyword Select ". Cologne, Weimar - Böhlau Verlag, pp. 13-40.
  • With Günther Ogris and Tina Brunauer (2009): " Look before whom ... - projections and exit polls: methods and accuracy ", in: Peter Filzmaier, Peter Plaikner, Karl Duffek (ed.): " keyword elections. " Cologne, Weimar - Böhlau Verlag Wien.
  • With Günther Ogris and Eve Zeglovits ( 2007): " It Is not Over 'til It's Over. Electoral Volatility in Austria from the 1970s through 2006 ", in: Günter Bischof and Fritz Plasser ( eds.): The Changing Austrian Voter, Contemporary Austrian Studies, vol. XVI.
  • With Günther Ogris and Brigitte Salfinger ( 2007): " What goes up must come down. Voters currents and motives for choice in the 2006 national elections ", in: Fritz Plasser, Peter Ulram (ed.): " change elections. Analyzes of the 2006 national elections. " Vienna: Facultas WCT -Verlag, pp. 195-211.
  • With Sigrid Nitsch and Brigitte Salfinger (2007): "Everything BAWAG or what? Campaigns, voters currents and motivation in the 2006 national elections ", in: Thomas Hofer, Barbara Tóth (ed.): " Election 2006 Chancellor, campaigns, capers. . Analyzes of the national election. " Vienna: LIT -Verlag, pp. 135-149.
  • With Answers Lang and Eva Zeglovits (2005): "Austrian Presidential Elections: Authenticity as the Key to Success ", in: EAPC: "Election Time. The European Yearbook of Political Campaigning 2004 ", pp. 36-50.
  • WIth Günther Ogris and Eve Thalhammer (2003 ): "The century power: campaign history, motives for choice and electoral flows in the context of national elections in 2002 ", in: Fritz Plasser, Peter Ulram (ed.): " Voting behavior in motion. Analyzes of the National Council Election 2002 " ( Series of the Center for Applied Policy Research, 28 ), Vienna: WUV University Press, pp. 159-190.
  • With Brigitte Salfinger and Sabine Westphal ( 2003): " Tyrolean voter dynamics from 1945 to 2003 in the Austrian context ", in: Karl Ferdinand Hofer and Anton Pelinka (ed.): "Politics in Tirol " Innsbruck: Study Verlag GesmbH, pp. 309-338.
  • With Günther Ogris and Ursula width fields (2001 ): "The turn of the year. Polarizations, topics and voters flows ", in: Andreas Kohl et al ( eds ): Yearbook of Austrian politics in 2000, Vienna and Munich: Publishing of History and Politics / Oldenbourg, pp. 17-34.
  • With Grützmann Kathrin (1996 ): "A Master Equation Model to Analyze the Electoral Flow at Austrian National Elections 1970-1990 ", in: D. Detombe, C. Dijkum (ed.): " Analyzing Societal Problems", Deventer, S. 279-294.
  • 1994: "Design of a master equation model to describe the dynamics in the Austrian national elections from 1970 to 1990 " (series of IHS - Sociological Series, 6), Vienna.
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