Professor Anthony King
Anthony King, a Canadian by birth, came to Britain as a Rhodes Scholar. Before moving to the University of Essex in the mid 1960s, he was a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.
He has been Professor of Government at Essex since 1969 and has also taught at Princeton and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His books include SDP; The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party (with Ivor Crewe), Running Scared: Why America's Politicians Campaign Too Much and Govern Too Little and Does the United Kingdom Still Have a Constitution? (the 2000 Hamlyn Lectures). He is a member of the Academia Europaea and a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Professor King writes regularly for the Daily Telegraph and broadcasts frequently on politics and elections for the BBC. He served between 1994 and 1998 on the Committee on Standards in Public Life (the Nolan Committee, latterly the Neill Committee) and in 1999-2000 served on the Royal Commission on the Reform of the House of Lords.
