Gerry Stoker (born 4 February 1955),[1] is a British political scientist noted for his works on local government and his textbooks.
More broadly he has, over the past five years, received invitations to speak at conferences on governance issues aimed at practitioners and policymakers as well as academics from the USA, Japan, China, Italy, Korea Norway, Ireland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Denmark and Australia.
In 2004, he won the Political Studies Association Award for 'making a difference' in recognition of the impact of his work on governance issues.
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.