Anthony King (political scientist) explained

Anthony King
Honorific Suffix:FBA
Birth Name:Anthony Stephen King
Birth Date:1934 11, df=yes
Birth Place:Canada
Nationality:Canadian-British
Fields:Government, psephology
Workplaces:University of Essex
Alma Mater:Queen's University, Ontario
University of Oxford
Thesis Title:Some aspects of the history of the Liberal Party in Britain, 1906–1914
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Anthony Stephen King (17 November 1934 – 12 January 2017) was a Canadian-British professor of government, psephologist and commentator. He taught at the Department of Government at the University of Essex for many years.

Early life

King was born in Canada on 17 November 1934,[1] the son of Marjorie and Harold King.[1] He gained a B.A. in History and Economics at Queen's University, Ontario.[2] [3] In the 1950s, he moved to UK as a Rhodes Scholar to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford, after which he gained a D.Phil.[2] with thesis titled "Some aspects of the history of the Liberal Party in Britain, 1906–1914".[4]

Career

He initially taught at Magdalen College, Oxford, before transferring to Essex, from which he never officially retired.[5] From 1969, he was Professor of Government at Essex, where he also led a Wednesday brainstorming class of selected bright students from the Department of Government. King taught the course GV100 – Introduction to Politics.[6] He also taught at Princeton and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, in the United States.

He regularly appeared on election results programming and analysed their implications. For each UK General Election from 1983 to 2005, he was BBC television's analyst on their election night programming. On a monthly basis, he analysed political opinion polls on voting intentions for The Daily Telegraph. He also wrote many books on politics and was co-editor of the Britain at the Polls series of essays and, in 2008, The British Constitution.[3]

King was 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.[1] He was also co-author with Ivor Crewe of the semi-official SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party[7] and The Blunders of our Governments.[3] He edited The New American Political System,[8] New Labour Triumphs: Britain at the Polls 1997,[3] [9] Britain at the Polls 2001[3] [10] and Britain at the Polls 2005.[3]

King was a member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life and the Royal Commission on the Reform of the House of Lords (the Wakeham Commission).[11] [12] In 2010, he was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.[13] [14] He also served as an associate at the Institute for Government, a non-partisan charity that aims to improve the effectiveness of central Government in the UK.[15] During the latter part of his life, his research focused on: the changing British constitution; the British prime ministership; American politics and government and the history of democracy.

King was 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.

Personal life

King married twice.[1] His first wife Vera Korte, whom he married in 1965, died in 1971.[1] He married his second wife Jan Reece in 1980.[1]

King died on 12 January 2017 at the age of 82.[16] [17]

Publications

Sources

Notes and References

  1. Book: The International Who's Who 2004 . Psychology Press . 2003 . 9781857432176 . 889.
  2. Web site: Professor Anthony King. University of Essex. https://web.archive.org/web/20170114024115/https://www1.essex.ac.uk/government/staff/profile.aspx?ID=397 . 14 January 2017 . dead.
  3. News: University of Essex professor Anthony King dies . Gazette . 12 January 2017 . 12 January 2017.
  4. Web site: Some aspects of the history of the Liberal Party in Britain, 1906–1914 . A. S. . King . University of Oxford SOLO catalogue .
  5. Web site: Academic Staff: Professor Anthony King. 8 April 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20101120184340/http://www.essex.ac.uk/government/staff/profile.aspx?ID=397. 20 November 2010. dead.
  6. Web site: University of Essex :: Module Directory detail. 13 October 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20091021235523/http://www.essex.ac.uk/courses/default.aspx?coursecode=GV100&level=4&period=FY. 21 October 2009. dead.
  7. Book: SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party . Crewe . Ivor . King . Anthony . Oxford University Press . 1995 . 9780198293132 . illustrated, reprint, revised.
  8. Book: King. Anthony. The New American Political System. 1990. AEI Press. 9780333550533. 2, illustrated, revised.
  9. Book: King. Anthony Stephen. New labour triumphs: Britain at the polls. 1998. Chatham House Publishers. 9781566430579. illustrated.
  10. Book: King. Anthony Stephen. Britain at the polls, 2001. 2002. Chatham House Publishers. 9781889119748. illustrated, revised.
  11. Web site: Standards in public life – Previous members . https://web.archive.org/web/20100328235142/http://www.public-standards.gov.uk/About/Previous_members.html . dead . 28 March 2010 . 13 October 2010 .
  12. Web site: Royal Commission on Reform of the House of Lords: A House for the Future . January 2000 . HM Government . 13 October 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060924175533/http://www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/cm45/4534/prelims.pdf . 24 September 2006 .
  13. Web site: Professor Anthony King elected Fellow of the British Academy . 13 March 2011 . 23 July 2010 . University of Essex, UK . https://web.archive.org/web/20120925201448/http://www.essex.ac.uk/news/event.aspx?e_id=2039 . 25 September 2012 . dead .
  14. Web site: Results of 2010 Fellowship Elections. British Academy. 13 October 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100924210235/http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/elections/2010.cfm. 24 September 2010. dead.
  15. Web site: Our people. Institute for Government. 13 October 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100916150412/http://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/ourpeople/. 16 September 2010. dead.
  16. Web site: Kettle. Martin. Anthony King, face of BBC election night coverage, dies aged 82. The Guardian. 12 January 2017. 12 January 2017.
  17. News: Political expert Professor Anthony King dies aged 82 . BBC News. 12 January 2017 . 12 January 2017.
  18. Book: The British general election of 1966 . Butler . David . King . Anthony Stephen . Macmillan . 1999 . 9780333778708 . illustrated, reprint.
  19. Book: The British Constitution . Oxford University Press . 2007 . 9780199232321 . illustrated, reprint.
  20. Book: The Founding Fathers v. the People: Paradoxes of American Democracy . Harvard University Press . 2012 . 9780674045736 . first.
  21. Book: The Blunders of Our Governments . King . Anthony . Crewe . Ivor . Oneworld Publications . 2014 . 9781780744056 . revised.
  22. News: Who Governs Britain? review – a timely examination of how the distribution of power has shifted . The Guardian . 8 April 2015 . 13 January 2017.

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