Biography

Royce Carroll is a Professor in Politics Science at the University of Houston. His research has focused on representation, political polarization, legislative politics, and analysis of survey and voting data, attitudes, preferences and ideology. He is co-author of the scaling method textbook Analyzing Spatial Models of Choice and Judgment (2nd Ed. 2020), as well as a number of articles on related methods and applications.

2M Ideal Point Estimation, Item Response Theory, and Scaling Methods for Surveys and Behaviour