William D. Berry (political scientist)
Encyclopedia
Dr. William D. Berry is the Syde P. Deeb Eminent Scholar in Political Science and Marian D. Irish Professor of Political Science at Florida State University
. His research analyses the impact of electoral competition on the policy choices made by state legislators, and the effect of state welfare policy on poverty in the United States. Dr. Berry’s research on methodology focuses on the development of techniques for estimating econometric models with binary dependent variables, and methods for studying policy diffusion using geographical information systems. He is the author of Understanding Multivariate Research: A Primer for Beginning Social Scientists (with Mitch Sanders, Westview Press, 2000), along with several other books on methodology in political science.
Florida State University
The Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation...
. His research analyses the impact of electoral competition on the policy choices made by state legislators, and the effect of state welfare policy on poverty in the United States. Dr. Berry’s research on methodology focuses on the development of techniques for estimating econometric models with binary dependent variables, and methods for studying policy diffusion using geographical information systems. He is the author of Understanding Multivariate Research: A Primer for Beginning Social Scientists (with Mitch Sanders, Westview Press, 2000), along with several other books on methodology in political science.