Frances Stokes Berry

Frances Stokes Berry is an American political scientist, public administration scholar, academic, and author. She is the Reubin O’D. Askew Eminent Scholar and the Frank Sherwood Professor of Public Administration at the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University.

Berry has published papers and books on topics related to public administration, policy diffusion, and innovation in public management. She is best known for her work exploring the drivers of the adoption of policies and innovations in the public sector. Her research on state-level lottery, strategic planning, and tax policy adoptions has been cited thousands of times. She is also a prominent scholar working on E-democracy, or the uses information and communication technology in political and governance processes. In recognition of her contributions to the fields of political science and public administration, Frances Berry was selected for the John Gaus Award by the American Political Science Association in 2022. In her Gaus Award lecture, Berry (2023, p.336) stressed that, "Political science and public management scholars learned from one another but have more to learn."

Berry is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. She also received the H. George Frederickson Award from the Public Research Management Association (PMRA). The H. George Frederickson Award honors a senior scholar for career contributions to the field of public management. Exemplary contributions include, but are not limited to, adding to the intellectual development of the field and building professional capital (e.g., journal development and other means of sharing PM scholarship and information) related to public management research. In 2014, she was given the Distinguished Research Award (2013), a joint award from American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), and the National Association of Schools of Public Administration and Policy (NASPAA), awarded annually to one scholar whose work has made a significant impact on the field of public administration. Provided by Wikipedia