Some aspects of the history of the Liberal Party in Britain, 1906–1914
Anthony Stephen KingFBA (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.
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]
^Crewe, Ivor; King, Anthony (1995). SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party (illustrated, reprint, revised ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN9780198293132.
^King, Anthony, ed. (1990). The New American Political System (2, illustrated, revised ed.). AEI Press. ISBN9780333550533.
^ abKing, Anthony Stephen, ed. (1998). New labour triumphs: Britain at the polls (illustrated ed.). Chatham House Publishers. ISBN9781566430579.
^King, Anthony Stephen, ed. (2002). Britain at the polls, 2001 (illustrated, revised ed.). Chatham House Publishers. ISBN9781889119748.
