Michael R. King
Dr. Michael R. King is Executive Director, Legislative Office for Research Liaison (LORL), Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Before coming to LORL, Dr. King served from 1968 to 1994 on the faculty of the Department of Political Science at Penn State ’s University Park campus.His teaching and research focused on quantitative political history, state legislatures, American state and local politics, public policy, research methodology, and computer applications in social science research. He has written books and articles on critical elections and political realignments in America , state legislative recruitment, legislative staffing, legislative professionalization and state electoral politics. Dr. King presently serves on the national and the eastern regional executive committees of the Council of State Governments and is chair of the Eastern Regional Legislative Service Agency Director’s Group of the Council of State Governments. He holds Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Political Science from the University of Oregon.