World Association for Public Opinion Research

mbc mori is an active participant in WAPOR Latinoamérica,  the regional chapter of the World Association for Public Opinion Research.  WAPOR, a non-profit organization founded in 1947, aims at promoting the highest professional and ethical standards in the execution and dissemination of public opinion studies. WAPOR Latin America’s objective is to spread these goals in the region and encourage regional cooperation and exchange among researchers and professionals of the public opinion and social research field.

Founded by María Braun, president of mbc mori, WAPOR Latin America has been present in the region since 2007. Its presence is expressed through the realization of regional Conferences, events and workshops on specific topics, and publication, since 2010, of the Revista Latinoamericana de Opinión Púbica (RLOP).

Latin American Public Opinion Journal
(RLOP - Revista Latinoamericana de Opinión Pública)

The Latin American Journal of Public Opinion (RLOP) was founded in 2010 by María Braun, who served as its Editor-in-Chief until 2018. At that time, Ryan E. Carlin (Georgia State University) and Mariano Torcal (UPF in Barcelona) assumed co-editorship, and since 2020, RLOP has been published by the Institute of Iberoamerica and Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca. Currently, two issues are published annually in an Open Access format. The journal, aimed at scholars of public opinion in Latin America, is indexed in Dialnet, Directory of Open Access Journals, ERIH PLUS, and MIAR, and is in the process of being indexed in several other databases.
https://www.waporlatinoamerica.org/rlop/ 

Braun Award for the RLOP´s Best Article  

The Braun Award, established in 2021, consists of a reward of US$ 500 for the best article published in the year. Its aim is to contribute to the promotion of RLOP and the dissemination of public opinion studies in the region.
https://www.waporlatinoamerica.org/premio-maria-braun/
This year, the Braun Award was granted to Kenneth Bunker, a professor at the University of San Sebastián, Chile, for his article titled 'Forecasting two-horse races in new democracies: accuracy, precision, and error,' published in Volume 11, Number 1 of RLOP in 2022. The article employs a Bayesian model that accurately predicts the results of the Chilean plebiscite in 2020 and can be applied to similar binary contexts.