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Renato Mannheimer

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Renato Mannheimer is an Italian pollster and professor of sociology at the University of Milano-Bicocca. He has published in academic journals,[1] and is a consultant to the daily Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera and to the Italian public service broadcaster RAI. He is most famous for frequently appearing on a popular RAI's talk show to provide and comment on data measuring and tracking the Italian public's attitudes concerning political, social, and economic issue of the day.

Up until February 2014, he chaired Rome's municipal Agency For Public Services Quality. He resigned after being indicted for tax evasion.[2] In February 2015, he pleaded guilty for tax evasion and returned €6m to the Italian Tax Administration.[3] He did not serve any time in prison. Mannheimer publicly said he was sorry for the wrongdoing. His polling business, although less fashionable than it used to be, is still operational.

Biography

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He was born to Ludvig Mannheimer, a Jews Vienna chemical industrialist and former publisher, and Bosnia (region) Gertrud Klein, who came to Milan with their eldest son Herbert and his maternal grandmother from Prague, Ida Taussig (whom he did not get to know in time), after a long wandering and Arrest due to Nazi persecution. At age 13, he lost his Father.

He studied economics at the Luigi Bocconi University, being part of extra-parliamentary left groups including the Maoism group Servire il popolo, in which he had a special assignment: selling the Book that rich comrades had taken from his father's libraries for self-financing. He graduated in 1971.[4][5]

A former professor of Public opinion analysis, public opinion analysis techniques, and survey techniques at the University of Milano-Bicocca, he has collaborated with several television news programs, including Porta a Porta. He has also been a pollster and analyst of electoral trends for Corriere della Sera and occasionally does such work for Il Giornale. He heads the ISPO, Institute for Public Opinion Studiesref.

He was married to Barbara Pollastrini.[6]

He was until February 2014 president of the Agency for the Control and Quality of Local Public Services of the City of Rome, from which he resigned following the judicial investigation involving him.[7] He plea-bargained a one-year, 11-month prison sentence for tax evasion, returning the evaded sums of 6 million euros to the tax authorities. As a result of the uproar brought about by the judicial affair,Bruno Vespa removed him from his TV show where he was a regular guest.[8]

References

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  1. ^ Mannheimer, Renato (1987). "Electoral trends and the Italian Communist Party in the 1970s". European Journal of Political Research. 15 (6): 635–652. doi:10.1111/j.1475-6765.1987.tb00897.x.
  2. ^ "Mannheimer indagato, dimissioni da presidenza Autorithy a Roma". www.ilfattoquotidiano.it. 25 February 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  3. ^ "Renato Mannheimer alla Zanzara: "Non guadagno più nulla, vivo solo con una pensione di 3800 euro"". www.ilgiornale.it. 20 February 2015. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  4. ^ "Ebrei internati a Valdobbiadene". Centro Studi Internamento Deportazione (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-05-14.
  5. ^ Amarcord Servire il popolo, 4 novembre 2008
  6. ^ "Barbara Pollastrini". Archived from the original on 30 October 2013.
  7. ^ Mannheimer indagato, dimissioni da presidenza Autorithy a Roma
  8. ^ Renato Mannheimer alla Zanzara: "Non guadagno più nulla, vivo solo con una pensione di 3800 euro" - IlGiornale.it