Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Político (SAAP)

Name

Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Político (SAAP)

Legal name

Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Político

Website

https://saap.org.ar

Company type

Private

Founded year

1983

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Ciudad de Buenos Aires

HQ country

Argentina

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Membership dues: Individual and institutional members pay annual dues to belong to SAAP. Members receive access to the journal, reduced congress fees, training discounts, and other benefits.
2. Congress and event registration fees: SAAP organizes national congresses and hosts international events (IPSA World Congress, ALACIP Latin American Congress) with registration fees varying by membership status and participant category.
3. Professional training courses: The SAAP Training School offers short courses on political science topics (project design, R programming, surveys, public budgets, political communication, congressional processes) at differentiated prices for members and non-members.
4. Revista SAAP journal operations: The journal is fully open access with no Article Processing Charges. Costs are covered by SAAP. The journal generates no direct revenue but serves as a member benefit and reputational anchor.
5. Donations: SAAP is authorized by AFIP to receive tax-deductible donations from individuals and organizations, with donors able to designate funds for academic purposes.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

SAAP is a non-profit professional academic association that provides individual and institutional membership services to political scientists in Argentina and Latin America. Its core deliverables include the peer-reviewed Revista SAAP journal (published semi-annually via OJS open access), organization of national and international political science congresses (including ALACIP and IPSA events), and short-form professional training courses through the Escuela de Capacitación y Formación Profesional. The association operates as a community-led professional society rather than a commercial entity.

Product overview

SAAP operates as a professional academic association providing a portfolio of interconnected products and services: its core offering is the Revista SAAP academic journal using Open Journal Systems (OJS), complemented by national and international congresses (Congresos SAAP) including the prestigious ALACIP and IPSA events, professional training through its Escuela de Capacitacion y Formacion Profesional, membership services (Membresia SAAP), and supplementary services such as a donation platform for tax-deductible contributions. The organization also maintains the Red de Catedras Introductorias de Ciencia Politica for academic resource sharing. These offerings work together to serve the political science community through publication, professional development, networking events, and institutional membership.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Revista SAAP
• Congresos SAAP
• Escuela de Capacitación y Formación Profesional
• Membresía SAAP

Quantifiable outcome

• Revista SAAP acceptance rate: 29%; First decision in 27 days
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Asociación Latinoamericana de Ciencia Política (ALACIP)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026SAAP is co-organizing the XIII Latin American Congress of Political Science (ALACIP 2026) with ALACIP and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. The congress will be held July 21-24, 2026 at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires. ALACIP is the Latin American association of political science, and SAAP hosts its regional congress as the local organizer. Registration fees include optional ALACIP membership.
• International Political Science Association (IPSA)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019SAAP serves as the Argentine national association affiliated with IPSA. SAAP successfully competed to host the 27th IPSA World Congress in Buenos Aires (originally planned for 2022, held in 2023 due to the pandemic). SAAP organized local panels and logistics in collaboration with IPSA, hosting the largest IPSA congress in history with over 3,000 participants from 122 countries. Oscar Oszlak, who organized the 15th World Congress in 1991, was named Honorary Chair of the Local Organizing Committee.
• Universidad Torcuato Di TellacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUniversidad Torcuato Di Tella is the co-organizer and host venue for the XIII ALACIP 2026 Congress. SAAP has also organized previous congresses with UDT, including the XIII National Congress of Political Science in 2017. The university provides the campus facilities in Buenos Aires.
• Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUCA served as the venue and local partner for the 27th IPSA World Congress in Buenos Aires (July 16-19, 2023). SAAP collaborated with UCA for infrastructure and logistics. The university was selected as the optimal venue for an event of this scale due to its facilities and location. SAAP and UCA co-hosted the 139th IPSA Executive Committee meeting in April 2022.
• Universidad Nacional Guillermo BrownminorGTM or Marketing PartnerListed as a sponsor/auspiciante (sponsor) for the ALACIP 2026 Congress. Universities listed as sponsors receive visibility at the event and demonstrate institutional support for the regional congress.
• Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos (OEI)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerListed as a sponsor/auspiciante for the ALACIP 2026 Congress. OEI's sponsorship demonstrates institutional support for the Latin American political science congress.
• Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina / CAFminorGTM or Marketing PartnerListed as a sponsor/auspiciante for the ALACIP 2026 Congress. CAF's support as a development bank sponsor indicates institutional backing for academic events in the region.
• Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorUNR serves as a satellite voting location for SAAP elections. Members in Rosario can vote at the university's Escuela de Ciencia Política, Riobamba 250 bis, CUR, Rosario, Santa Fe, in addition to SAAP headquarters in Buenos Aires.
• Red de Cátedras Introductorias de Ciencia PolíticaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAn initiative hosted by SAAP providing programs and bibliography for introductory political science courses at universities across Argentina. Coordinated through a Google Drive repository maintained by SAAP. This represents SAAP's contribution to pedagogical resources and curriculum development in the discipline.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• International Political Science Association (IPSA): IPSA is the global umbrella organization for political science of which SAAP is the Argentine national affiliate. Both operate the same professional association model across political science, organize World Congresses, and publish peer-reviewed research.
• European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR): ECPR is a European network of political science institutions, comparable to SAAP in mission to convene the discipline, organize conferences, and run training schools for political scientists across a defined geography.

Direct peers

• American Political Science Association (APSA): APSA is the leading U.S. political science professional association, publishing multiple journals, organizing the largest annual political science meeting in the world, and offering member services on the same model SAAP follows in Argentina and Latin America.
• Asociación Mexicana de Ciencia Política (AMECIP): AMECIP is the Mexican national political science association, structurally equivalent to SAAP with member-driven governance, annual congresses, an indexed journal, and IPSA affiliation. Both organizations operate the same professional society model across the region.
• Asociación Uruguaya de Ciencia Política (AUCiP): AUCiP is the Uruguayan national political science association with which SAAP shares ALACIP regional co-congress partners, member programming, and journal-exchange practices. Both are Spanish-speaking, IPSA-affiliated professional associations of similar scale.
• Asociación Latinoamericana de Ciencia Política (ALACIP): ALACIP is the Latin American regional association of political science of which SAAP is a core national member and frequent co-organizer of biennial Latin American Congresses. Both coordinate congresses, member representation, and political science research across the region.
• Associação Brasileira de Ciência Política (ABCP): ABCP is the Brazilian national political science association, the largest peer to SAAP in South America. Both publish peer-reviewed journals (Revista Brasileira de Ciência Política mirrors Revista SAAP's role), hold annual congresses, and serve as IPSA national affiliates.
• Political Studies Association (PSA): PSA is the UK national political science association running member services, an annual conference, peer-reviewed journals, and a portfolio comparable to SAAP's membership, training, and congress portfolio in Argentina.

Others

• Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET): CONICET is the Argentine government scientific research council that accredits Revista SAAP within the Núcleo Básico de Revistas Científicas Argentinas. It is an ecosystem enabler for SAAP rather than a peer, comparable in being a key institutional supporter of Argentine academic publishing and research policy.
• Redalyc - Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México: Redalyc is the Latin American open-access scholarly indexing platform that includes Revista SAAP. It is an infrastructure provider for SAAP's journal distribution rather than a direct peer, but materially comparable in serving the regional academic publishing ecosystem.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance5 records

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Profiles3 records

Subsidiaries2 records

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