Analistas Socio Políticos (ASP) Research Center, is a private, independent research institute of social sciences located in Madrid (Spain), founded (1993) and directed by Víctor Pérez-Díaz , Ph.D.in Sociology from Harvard University and Professor of Sociology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

ASP is devoted to the study of problems concerning the relationships between the market economy, liberal democracy and civil society in the modern world. Its focus is on how the challenges and opportunities arising as a consequence of the current processes of change, and of change in the scale of the problems (globalization, the European construction), affect business and voluntary associations, politics, public policies and the development of a public space particularly at three levels: at the national level, the European level and the level of the transatlantic community.

ASP carries out activities of research, publication, consulting for public and private institutions, and provides research training for Ph.D. candidates. ASP collaborates with research centers, foundations and academics of national and international standing. Its activities have been sponsored by a variety of international and Spanish institutions, of both public and private character, for profit as well as non profit organizations.