Professor Gerry Stoker

Board Member
Professor of Politics and Governance, University of Southampton

Gerry Stoker is Professor of Politics and Governance at the University of Southampton, UK. His current research deals with issues of governance in complex settings, political disenchantment in western democracies, citizen empowerment and strategies for encouraging civic behaviour among citizens. In his research work Professor Stoker is committed to the use of pioneering methods and in particular to approaches that enable evidenced-based policy and practice. In recent work he has promoted the use of randomized control trials, design experiments and Boolean techniques to draw out lessons from multiple case studies.