Anthony King

Who is Anthony King?

Anthony Stephen King FBA is a Canadian-born British professor of government in the United Kingdom at Essex University, psephologist and commentator.

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

He regularly appears on election results and their implications. 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 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.