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_, British General Elections Since 1945, Second Edition – ‘Making Contemporary Britain’ Series (Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1995).David Butler, British General Elections Since 1945 – ‘Making Contemporary Britain’ Series (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989)._, Governing Without a Majority: Dilemmas for Hung Parliaments in Britain, Second Edition (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1986).David Butler, Governing Without a Majority: Dilemmas for Hung Parliaments in Britain (London: Collins, 1983).Halsey (eds), Policy and Politics: Essays in Honour of Norman Chester (London: Macmillan, 1978).
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David Butler (ed.), Coalitions in British Politics (London: Macmillan, 1978)._, Political Change in Britain: The Basis of Electoral Choice, 2nd ed.David Butler and Donald Stokes, Political Change in Britain: Forces Shaping Electoral Choice (London: Macmillan, 1969)._, The Study of Political Behaviour, 2nd ed.Butler, The Study of Political Behaviour (London: Hutchinson, 1958). _, The Electoral System in Britain Since 1918, 2nd ed.Butler, The Electoral System in Britain 1918–1951 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1953). They have three sons.īibliography Books on British politics His wife, Professor Marilyn Butler (died March 2014), was a former rector of Exeter College, Oxford, the first woman to head a previously all-male college. Since 1973, Butler has been involved in founding and organising the Oxford University Australian Politics Lunch, which "has only one rule, you are not allowed to talk about anything except Australian politics." Notable lunch attendees included Kim Beazley.Ī cousin was the former Conservative politician Rab Butler. Butler was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Essex in 1993. He was appointed CBE in the 1991 Birthday Honours and knighted in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to political science. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1994. His Governing Without a Majority: Dilemmas for Hung Parliaments in Britain (Sheridan House, 1986) provides an analysis of the phenomenon of the hung parliament in Britain.īutler is an Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and sits on the editorial board of the academic journal Representation. Stokes, brought modern American science treatments to the United Kingdom and is regarded as a pioneering analysis of its kind. His book, Political Change in Britain: Forces Shaping Electoral Choice (Macmillan, 1969), written with US political scientist Donald E. He also appeared as a guest on the BBC's coverage of both the 20 general elections. He has since appeared as an electoral analyst on various television and radio programmes, including for ITV on the night of the 1997 general election, and Sky News election night coverage in 2001. He was a prominent on-screen expert on the BBC's election night coverage from the 1950 election to the 1979 election, and was a co-inventor of the swingometer. From 1974 to 2005, this series was co-authored with Dennis Kavanagh.
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Early co-authors included Richard Rose and Anthony King. īutler is the author of many publications, but perhaps his most important work is the Nuffield Election Studies of each United Kingdom General Election since 1945. He returned to Oxford as a researcher and academic at Nuffield College, where he taught throughout the remainder of his academic career.īetween 19, Butler served as personal assistant to HM Ambassador in Washington.