- 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). īutler died of renal failure on 8 November 2022, at the age of 98. The Conservative politician Rab Butler was his cousin. Personal life īutler was married to Professor Marilyn Butler (died March 2014), a former rector of Exeter College, Oxford, the first woman to head a previously all-male college. ![]() Butler was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Essex in 1993. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1991 Queen's Birthday Honours List and knighted in the 2011 New Years Honours List for services to political science. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 1994. Īfter 1973, Butler was 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 the Australian Leader of the Opposition Kim Beazley.īutler was an Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. He sat on the editorial board of the academic journal Representation. 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. Stokes, brought modern American science treatments to the United Kingdom. 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 later 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. Butler was a commentator 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, the series was co-authored with Dennis Kavanagh. Early co-authors included Richard Rose and Anthony King. īutler was the author of many publications, but his most notable work is the series of Nuffield Election Studies which covers every 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 the British Ambassador to the United States. ![]() After the war, he resumed his studies at Oxford, then proceeded to Princeton University as a Jane Eliza Procter Visiting Fellow from 1947 to 1948. His time at Oxford was interrupted by the Second World War, during which he saw service as a tank commander in the Staffordshire Yeomanry and crossed the Rhine during the latter stages of the war. ![]() Butler was a second cousin.īutler was educated at St Paul's School and New College, Oxford. Through his mother, he was the grandson of the historian A. Born in London, Butler was the son of Harold Edgeworth Butler, Professor of Latin at University College, London by his wife, Margaret, née Pollard.
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