Anthony King (professor)

Anthony King giving a talk on 'The Blunders of our Governments' for the Essex Book Festival, 2014

Anthony Stephen King FBA (born 17 November 1934) is a Canadian-born British professor of government, psephologist and commentator. He currently teaches at Essex University.

King gained a B.A. in History and Economics at Queen's University, Ontario. He then moved to the UK as a Rhodes Scholar to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford, after which he gained a D.Phil. with thesis titled Some aspects of the history of the Liberal Party in Britain, 1906–1914.[1] He initially taught at Magdalen College, Oxford, before transferring to Essex.[2] Since 1969, he has been Professor of Government at Essex.[3]

He regularly appears on election results programming and analyses their implications. For each UK General Election from 1983 - 2005, he was BBC television's analyst on their election night programming. On a monthly basis, he analyses political opinion polls on voting intentions for The Daily Telegraph. He has also written many books on politics and was co-editor of the Britain at the Polls series of essays and, in 2008, The British Constitution.

King is co-author with David Butler of two Nuffield College election studies (those for 1964 and 1966) and author of Britain Says Yes: the 1975 Referendum on the Common Market and Running Scared: Why America’s Politicians Campaign Too Much and Govern Too Little. He is also co-author with Ivor Crewe of SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party and The Blunders of our Governments. He has edited The New American Political System, New Labour Triumphs: Britain at the Polls 1997, Britain at the Polls 2001 and Britain at the Polls 2005.

King is a former member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life and the Royal Commission on the Reform of the House of Lords (the Wakeham Commission).[4][5] In 2010, he was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.[3][6] He also serves as an associate at the Institute for Government, a non-partisan charity that aims to improve the effectiveness of central Government in the UK.[7] His current research includes: the changing British constitution; the British prime ministership; American politics and government and the history of democracy.

King teaches the course GV100 – Introduction to Politics at the University of Essex.[8] He has also taught at Princeton and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, in the United States.[3]

King is also a member of the Academia Europaea, a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an honorary life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.[3]

References

  1. ↑ King, A. S. "Some aspects of the history of the Liberal Party in Britain, 1906-1914". University of Oxford SOLO catalogue.
  2. ↑ "Academic Staff: Professor Anthony King". Retrieved 8 April 2011.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Professor Anthony King elected Fellow of the British Academy". University of Essex, UK. 23 July 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
  4. ↑ "Standards in public life – Previous members". Retrieved 13 October 2010.
  5. ↑ "Royal Commission on Reform of the House of Lords: A House for the Future" (PDF). HM Government. January 2000. Retrieved 13 October 2010.
  6. ↑ "Results of 2010 Fellowship Elections – British Academy". British Academy. Archived from the original on 24 September 2010. Retrieved 13 October 2010.
  7. ↑ "Our people – Institute for Government". Institute for Government. Archived from the original on 16 September 2010. Retrieved 13 October 2010.
  8. ↑ "University of Essex :: Module Directory detail". Retrieved 13 October 2010.

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