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King was co-author with [[David Butler (psephologist)|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''.<ref name="The International Who's Who 2004"/> He was also co-author with [[Ivor Crewe]] of the semi-official ''SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party''<ref name="SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party">{{Cite book |title=SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party |last=Crewe |first=Ivor |last2=King |first2=Anthony |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1995 |isbn=9780198293132 |edition=illustrated, reprint, revised}}</ref> and ''The Blunders of our Governments''.<ref name="theguardian"/><ref name="gazette"/> He edited ''The New American Political System'',<ref name="The New American Political System">{{cite book|editor1-last=King|editor1-first=Anthony|title=The New American Political System|date=1990|publisher=AEI Press|isbn=9780333550533|edition=2, illustrated, revised}}</ref> ''New Labour Triumphs: Britain at the Polls 1997'',<ref name="gazette"/><ref name="New labour triumphs: Britain at the polls">{{cite book|editor1-last=King|editor1-first=Anthony Stephen|title=New labour triumphs: Britain at the polls|date=1998|publisher=Chatham House Publishers|isbn=9781566430579|edition=illustrated}}</ref> ''Britain at the Polls 2001''<ref name="gazette"/><ref name="Britain at the polls, 2001">{{cite book|editor1-last=King|editor1-first=Anthony Stephen|title=Britain at the polls, 2001|date=2002|publisher=Chatham House Publishers|isbn=9781889119748|edition=illustrated, revised}}</ref> and ''Britain at the Polls 2005''.<ref name="gazette"/> |
King was co-author with [[David Butler (psephologist)|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''.<ref name="The International Who's Who 2004"/> He was also co-author with [[Ivor Crewe]] of the semi-official ''SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party''<ref name="SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party">{{Cite book |title=SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party |last=Crewe |first=Ivor |last2=King |first2=Anthony |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1995 |isbn=9780198293132 |edition=illustrated, reprint, revised}}</ref> and ''The Blunders of our Governments''.<ref name="theguardian"/><ref name="gazette"/> He edited ''The New American Political System'',<ref name="The New American Political System">{{cite book|editor1-last=King|editor1-first=Anthony|title=The New American Political System|date=1990|publisher=AEI Press|isbn=9780333550533|edition=2, illustrated, revised}}</ref> ''New Labour Triumphs: Britain at the Polls 1997'',<ref name="gazette"/><ref name="New labour triumphs: Britain at the polls">{{cite book|editor1-last=King|editor1-first=Anthony Stephen|title=New labour triumphs: Britain at the polls|date=1998|publisher=Chatham House Publishers|isbn=9781566430579|edition=illustrated}}</ref> ''Britain at the Polls 2001''<ref name="gazette"/><ref name="Britain at the polls, 2001">{{cite book|editor1-last=King|editor1-first=Anthony Stephen|title=Britain at the polls, 2001|date=2002|publisher=Chatham House Publishers|isbn=9781889119748|edition=illustrated, revised}}</ref> and ''Britain at the Polls 2005''.<ref name="gazette"/> |
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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]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.public-standards.gov.uk/About/Previous_members.html|title=Standards in public life – Previous members|accessdate=13 October 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/cm45/4534/prelims.pdf|title=Royal Commission on Reform of the House of Lords: A House for the Future|date=January 2000|publisher=HM Government|accessdate=13 October 2010}}</ref> In 2010, he was elected as a Fellow of the [[British Academy]].<ref name="essex-news">{{cite web | url=http://www.essex.ac.uk/news/event.aspx?e_id=2039 | title=Professor Anthony King elected Fellow of the British Academy | accessdate=13 March 2011 | date=23 July 2010 | publisher=[[University of Essex]], UK}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/elections/2010.cfm|title=Results of 2010 Fellowship Elections – British Academy|publisher=British Academy|accessdate=13 October 2010| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100924210235/http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/elections/2010.cfm| archivedate= 24 September 2010 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/ourpeople/|title=Our people – Institute for Government|publisher=Institute for Government|accessdate=13 October 2010| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100916150412/http://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/ourpeople/| archivedate= 16 September 2010 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}}</ref> During the latter part of his life, his research focused on: the changing British constitution; the [[British prime minister]]ship; [[American politics]] and government and the history of democracy. |
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]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.public-standards.gov.uk/About/Previous_members.html |title=Standards in public life – Previous members |accessdate=13 October 2010 }}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/cm45/4534/prelims.pdf |title=Royal Commission on Reform of the House of Lords: A House for the Future |date=January 2000 |publisher=HM Government |accessdate=13 October 2010 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060924175533/http://www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/cm45/4534/prelims.pdf |archivedate=24 September 2006 }}</ref> In 2010, he was elected as a Fellow of the [[British Academy]].<ref name="essex-news">{{cite web | url=http://www.essex.ac.uk/news/event.aspx?e_id=2039 | title=Professor Anthony King elected Fellow of the British Academy | accessdate=13 March 2011 | date=23 July 2010 | publisher=[[University of Essex]], UK}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/elections/2010.cfm|title=Results of 2010 Fellowship Elections – British Academy|publisher=British Academy|accessdate=13 October 2010| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100924210235/http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/elections/2010.cfm| archivedate= 24 September 2010 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/ourpeople/|title=Our people – Institute for Government|publisher=Institute for Government|accessdate=13 October 2010| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100916150412/http://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/ourpeople/| archivedate= 16 September 2010 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}}</ref> During the latter part of his life, his research focused on: the changing British constitution; the [[British prime minister]]ship; [[American politics]] and government and the history of democracy. |
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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]].<ref name="essex-news" /> |
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]].<ref name="essex-news" /> |
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Anthony King FBA | |
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Born | Anthony Stephen King November 17, 1934 Canada |
Died | January 12, 2017 | (aged 82)
Nationality | Canadian-British |
Education | Queen's University, Ontario |
Alma mater | University of Oxford |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Government, psephology |
Institutions | University of Essex |
Thesis | Some aspects of the history of the Liberal Party in Britain, 1906–1914 |
Anthony Stephen King FBA (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[1][2] on 17 November 1934,[3] the son of Marjorie and Harold King.[3] He gained a B.A. in History and Economics at Queen's University, Ontario.[4][5] In the 1950s, he moved to UK as a Rhodes Scholar[1] to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford, after which he gained a D.Phil.[4][2] with thesis titled Some aspects of the history of the Liberal Party in Britain, 1906–1914.[6]
Career
He initially taught at Magdalen College, Oxford, before transferring to Essex, from which he never officially retired.[1][7] 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.[8] King taught the course GV100 – Introduction to Politics.[9] He also taught at Princeton and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, in the United States.[8]
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.[2] On a monthly basis, he analysed political opinion polls on voting intentions for The Daily Telegraph.[2] 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.[5]
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.[3] He was also co-author with Ivor Crewe of the semi-official SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party[10] and The Blunders of our Governments.[1][5] He edited The New American Political System,[11] New Labour Triumphs: Britain at the Polls 1997,[5][12] Britain at the Polls 2001[5][13] and Britain at the Polls 2005.[5]
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).[14][15] In 2010, he was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.[8][16] 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.[17] 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.[8]
Personal life
King married twice.[3] His first wife Vera Korte, whom he married in 1965, died in 1971.[3] He married his second wife Jan Reece in 1980.[3]
King died on 12 January 2017 at the age of 82.[1][2]
Publications
- British Members of Parliament: A Self-portrait (1974)[3]
- The View from Europe in Charles O. Jones, ed., The Reagan Legacy: Promise and Performance with David Sanders (1988)[4]
- Margaret Thatcher as a Political Leader in Robert Skidelsky, ed. (1988)[4]
- Britain At the Polls 1992 (editor)[3]
- The New American Political System ISBN 0-333-55053-6 (editor) (1990)[3]
- SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party with Ivor Crewe (co-winner of the 1996 W.J.M. Mackenzie Prize awarded by the Political Studies Association for the best book in the field of political science) (1995)[3][4]
- Running Scared: Why America's Politicians Campaign Too Much and Govern Too Little (1997)[3]
- New Labour Triumphs: Britain at the Polls (editor) (1998)[12]
- The British general election of 1966 with David Butler ISBN 0-333-77870-7 (1999)[18]
- Does the United Kingdom Still Have a Constitution? ISBN 0-421-74930-X (2001)[3]
- Leaders' Personalities and the Outcomes of Democratic Elections ISBN 0-198-29791-2 (editor) (2002)[3]
- The British Constitution ISBN 0-199-23232-6 (2007)[19]
- The Blunders of Our Governments with Ivor Crewe ISBN 1-780-74405-6 (2014)[20]
- Who Governs Britain? ISBN 0-141-98066-4 (2015)[21]
References
- ^ a b c d e Kettle, Martin (12 January 2017). "Anthony King, face of BBC election night coverage, dies aged 82". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
- ^ a b c d e "Political expert Professor Anthony King dies aged 82". BBC News. 12 January 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m The International Who's Who 2004. Psychology Press. 2003. p. 889. ISBN 9781857432176.
- ^ a b c d e "Professor Anthony King". University of Essex.
- ^ a b c d e f "University of Essex professor Anthony King dies". Gazette. 12 January 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
- ^ King, A. S. "Some aspects of the history of the Liberal Party in Britain, 1906–1914". University of Oxford SOLO catalogue.
- ^ "Academic Staff: Professor Anthony King". Retrieved 8 April 2011.
- ^ a b c d "Professor Anthony King elected Fellow of the British Academy". University of Essex, UK. 23 July 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
- ^ "University of Essex :: Module Directory detail". Retrieved 13 October 2010.
- ^ Crewe, Ivor; King, Anthony (1995). SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party (illustrated, reprint, revised ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198293132.
- ^ King, Anthony, ed. (1990). The New American Political System (2, illustrated, revised ed.). AEI Press. ISBN 9780333550533.
- ^ a b King, Anthony Stephen, ed. (1998). New labour triumphs: Britain at the polls (illustrated ed.). Chatham House Publishers. ISBN 9781566430579.
- ^ King, Anthony Stephen, ed. (2002). Britain at the polls, 2001 (illustrated, revised ed.). Chatham House Publishers. ISBN 9781889119748.
- ^ "Standards in public life – Previous members". Retrieved 13 October 2010.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Royal Commission on Reform of the House of Lords: A House for the Future" (PDF). HM Government. January 2000. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2006. Retrieved 13 October 2010.
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suggested) (help) - ^ Butler, David; King, Anthony Stephen (1999). The British general election of 1966 (illustrated, reprint ed.). Macmillan. ISBN 9780333778708.
- ^ The British Constitution (illustrated, reprint ed.). Oxford University Press. 2007. ISBN 9780199232321.
- ^ King, Anthony; Crewe, Ivor (2014). The Blunders of Our Governments (revised ed.). Oneworld Publications. ISBN 9781780744056.
- ^ "Who Governs Britain? review – a timely examination of how the distribution of power has shifted". The Guardian. 8 April 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
Sources
- Use dmy dates from May 2012
- 1934 births
- 2017 deaths
- Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford
- Canadian Rhodes Scholars
- Psephologists
- British political scientists
- Canadian expatriate academics in the United Kingdom
- Canadian political scientists
- Academics of the University of Essex
- Fellows of the British Academy
- Members of Academia Europaea
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences