Bibliography of works by Sir David Butler

Books

  • D.E. Butler, The Electoral System in Britain 1918-1951 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1953).
    • D.E. Butler, The Electoral System in Britain Since 1918, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963).
  • D.E. Butler, The Study of Political Behaviour (London: Hutchinson, 1958).
    • D.E. Butler, The Study of Political Behaviour, 2nd ed. (London: Hutchinson, 1959).
  • D.E. Butler (ed.), Elections Abroad, 1957-1958 (London: Macmillan, 1959).
  • David Butler and Donald Stokes, Political Change in Britain: Forces Shaping Electoral Choice (London: Macmillan, 1969).
    • David Butler and Donald Stokes, Political Change in Britain: The Basis of Electoral Choice, 2nd ed. (London: Macmillan, 1975).
  • David Butler, The Canberra Model: Essays on Australian Government (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1974).
  • David Butler (ed.), Coalitions in British Politics (London: Macmillan, 1978).
  • David Butler and A.H. Halsey (eds), Policy and Politics: Essays in Honour of Norman Chester (London: Macmillan, 1978).
  • Vernon Bogdanor and David Butler (eds), Democracy and Elections: Electoral Systems and Their Political Consequences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1983).
  • David Butler, Governing Without a Majority: Dilemmas for Hung Parliaments in Britain (London: Collins, 1983).
    • David Butler, Governing Without a Majority: Dilemmas for Hung Parliaments in Britain, Second Edition (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1986).
  • David Butler, Ashok Lahiri and Prannoy Roy, A Compendium of Indian Elections (New Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann, 1984).
  • David Butler, British General Elections Since 1945 - ‘Making Contemporary Britain’ Series (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989).
    • David Butler, British General Elections Since 1945, Second Edition - ‘Making Contemporary Britain’ Series (Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1995).
  • David Butler, Ashok Lahiri and Prannoy Roy (eds), India Decides: Elections 1952-1989 (New Delhi: Living Media India, 1990).
    • David Butler, Ashok Lahiri and Prannoy Roy (eds), India Decides: Elections 1952-1991, 2nd ed. (New Delhi: Living Media India, 1991).
    • David Butler, Ashok Lahiri and Prannoy Roy (eds), India Decides: Elections 1952-1995, 3rd ed. (New Delhi: Books and Things, 1996).
  • David Butler and D.A. Low (eds), Sovereigns and Surrogates: Constitutional Heads of State in the Commonwealth (London: Macmillan, 1991).
  • David Butler and Bruce Cain, Congressional Redistricting: Comparative and Theoretical Frameworks (New York: Macmillan, 1992).
  • David Butler, Andrew Adonis and Tony Travers, Failure in British Government: The Politics of the Poll Tax (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994).
  • David Butler and Iain Maclean, Fixing the Boundaries: Defining and Redefining Single-Member Electoral Districts (Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing, 1996).
  • David Butler, Vernon Bogdanor and Robert Summer (eds), The Law, Politics and the Constitution: Essays in Honor of Geoffrey Marshall (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).

Nuffield election studies series

British general elections

(Please note that only the volumes edited or co-edited by Butler are listed here.)

  • D.E. Butler, The British General Election of 1951 (London: Macmillan, 1952).
  • D.E. Butler, The British General Election of 1955 (London: Macmillan, 1955).
  • D.E. Butler and Richard Rose, The British General Election of 1959 (London: Macmillan, 1960).
  • D.E. Butler and Anthony King, The British General Election of 1964 (London: Macmillan,1965).
  • D.E. Butler and Anthony King, The British General Election of 1966 (London: Macmillan,1966).
  • David Butler and Michael Pinto-Duschinsky, The British General Election of 1970 (London: Macmillan, 1971).
  • David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of February, 1974 (London: Macmillan, 1974).
  • David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of October, 1974 (London: Macmillan, 1975).
  • David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of 1979 (London: Macmillan, 1979).
  • David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of 1983 (London: Macmillan, 1984).
  • David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of 1987 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1988).
  • David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of 1992 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1992).
  • David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of 1997 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1997).
  • David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of 2001 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001).
  • David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of 2005 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

1975 EEC referendum

  • David Butler and Uwe W. Kitzinger, The 1975 Referendum (London: Macmillan, 1976).

European elections

(No book on the 1989 European elections was produced, due to Butler being in America for much of the early part of 1989.)

  • David Butler and David Marquand, British Politics and European Elections (London:
    Longman, 1981).
  • David Butler and Paul Jowett, Party Strategies in Britain: A Study of the 1984 European Elections (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1985).
  • David Butler and Martin Westlake, British Politics and European Elections, 1994
    (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1995).
  • David Butler and Martin Westlake, British Politics and European Elections, 1999
    (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000).
  • David Butler and Martin Westlake, British Politics and European Elections, 2004
    (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

British Political Facts series

  • David Butler and Jennie Freeman, British Political Facts, 1900-1960 (London: Macmillan, 1963).
    • David Butler and Jennie Freeman, British Political Facts, 1900-1967, 2nd ed (London: Macmillan, 1968).
    • David Butler and Jennie Freeman, British Political Facts, 1900-1968, 3rd ed. (London: Macmillan, 1969).
    • David Butler and Anne Sloman, British Political Facts, 1900-1975, 4th ed. (London: Macmillan, 1975).
    • David Butler and Anne Sloman, British Political Facts, 1900-1979, 5th ed. (London: Macmillan, 1980).
    • David Butler and Gareth Butler, British Political Facts, 1900-1985, 6th ed. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1986).
    • David Butler and Gareth Butler, British Political Facts, 1900-1994, 7th ed. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1994).
    • David Butler and Gareth Butler, Twentieth-Century British Political Facts, 1900-2000, 8th ed. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000).
    • David Butler and Gareth Butler, British Political Facts Since 1979, 9th ed.(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
    • David Butler and Gareth Butler, British Political Facts, 10th ed. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

(Subsequent editions since the 11th edition in 2018 have been edited by Roger Mortimore and Andrew Blick, and have been renamed ‘Butler’s British Political Facts.’)

AEI ‘At the Polls’ comparative studies series

(Please note that only the volumes co-edited by Butler are listed here.)

  • David Butler and Austin Ranney (eds), Referendums: A Comparative Study of Practice and Theory (Washington D.C.: AEI Press, 1978).
  • David Butler, Howard R. Penniman and Austin Ranney (eds), Democracy at the Polls: A Comparative Study of Competitive National Elections (Washington D.C.: AEI Press, 1981).
  • David Butler and Austin Ranney (eds), Electioneering: A Comparative Study of Continuity and Change (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992).
  • David Butler and Austin Ranney (eds), Referendums Around the World: The Growing Use of Direct Democracy (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994).

Book chapters

  • D.E. Butler, ‘Appendix III: The Relation of Seats to Votes’, R. B. McCallum and Alison Readman (eds), The British General Election of 1945 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1947), pp. 277-92.
  • D.E. Butler, ’Appendix: An Examination of the Results’, H. G. Nicholas (ed.), The British General Election of 1950 (London: Macmillan, 1951), pp. 306-33.
  • Anonymous, ‘Section III, Foreign History, Chapter II: The United States of America’, The Annual Register: A Review of Public Events at Home and Abroad for the Year 1952, Vol. 194 (London: Longman, 1953), pp. 176-93.
  • Anonymous, ‘Section III, Foreign History, Chapter II: The United States of America’, The Annual Register: A Review of Public Events at Home and Abroad for the Year 1953, Vol. 195 (London: Longman, 1954), pp. 160-74.
  • Anonymous, ‘Section III, Foreign History, Chapter II: The United States of America’, The Annual Register: A Review of Public Events at Home and Abroad for theYear 1954, Vol. 196 (London: Longman, 1955), pp. 168-86.
  • David Butler, ‘The Study of British Elections’, J.S. Bromley and E.H. Kossmann (eds), Britain and the Netherlands: Papers Delivered to the Oxford-Netherlands Historical Conference, 1959 (London: Chatto & Windus, 1960), pp. 221-30.
  • David E. Butler, ‘The Study of Political Behaviour in Britain’, Austin Ranney (ed.), Essays on the Behavioral Study of Politics (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1962), pp. 209-16.
  • David Butler, ‘Thoughts on the 1972 Election’ , Henry Mayer (ed.), Labor to Power: Australia’s 1972 Election (Sydney, New South Wales: Angus & Robertson on behalf of the Australasian Political Studies Association, 1973), pp. 1-5.
  • David Butler, ‘By-Elections and Their Interpretation’, Chris Cook and John Ramsden (eds), By-Elections in British Politics (London: Macmillan, 1973), pp. 1-12.
    • David Butler, ‘By-Elections and Their Interpretation’, Chris Cook and John Ramsden (eds), By-Elections in British Politics: Revised Second Edition (London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 1-12.
  • David Butler, ‘Variants of the Westminster Model’, Vernon Bogdanor and David Butler (eds), Democracy and Elections: Electoral Systems and their Political Consequences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 46-61.
  • David Butler, ‘Survey of the Voting: Election of Haves and Have-Nots’, Times Guide to the House of Commons, June 1987 (London: The Times, 1987), pp. 254-56.
  • David Butler, ‘Preface’, Victor Lal, Fiji: Coups in Paradise - Race, Politics and Military Intervention (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Zed Books, 1990), pp. 1-10.
  • David Butler, ‘Elections in Britain’, Peter Caterall (ed.), Contemporary Britain: An Annual Review, 1991 (London: Institute of Contemporary British History, 1991), pp. 59-63.
  • David Butler, ‘The Presidency and American Constitutionalism’, Kenneth W. Thompson (ed.), The American Presidency: Perspectives from Abroad, Volume III (Lanham, Virginia: The Miller Centre, University of Virginia, 1992).
  • David Butler, ‘Voting Behaviour and the Party System’, Bill Jones and Lynton Robins (eds), Two Decades in British Politics: Essays to Mark Twenty-one Years of the Politics Association, 1969-90 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992).
  • David Butler, ‘The Republican Question in Australia’, Kate Darian-Smith (ed.), Public Lectures in Australian Studies (London: Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 1994), pp. 1-15.
  • David Butler, ‘Polls and Elections’, Lawrence LeDuc, Richard G. Niemi and Pippa Norris (eds), Comparing Discrepancies: Elections and Voting in Global Perspective (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, 1996), pp. 236-53.
  • David Butler, ‘Putting Turnout into Perspective’, Virginia Gibbons (ed.), The People Have Spoken - UK Elections: Who Votes and Who Doesn’t (London: Hansard Society, 2001), pp. 11-13.
  • David Butler, ‘Foreword’, Dennis Kavanagh and Philip Cowley (eds), The British General Election of 2010 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. xiii-xiv.

(Butler also anonymously wrote various analytical chapters of the ‘Times Guide to the House of Commons’ series from the 1960s to the 1980s.)

Peer-reviewed journal articles

  • David Butler, ‘Trends in British By-Elections’, Journal of Politics, Vol. 11, No. 2 (May 1949), pp. 396-407.
  • David Butler, ‘Convention and Conference’, Cambridge Journal, Vol. IV, No. 4 (January 1951), pp. 195-206.
  • David Butler, ‘La Relation entre les Sièges Obtenus et les Voix Recueillies par les Partis dans les Elections Britanniques’, Revue française de science politique, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Avril-Juin 1952), pp. 265-69.
  • David Butler, ‘Voting Behaviour and its Study in Britain’, British Journal of Sociology, Vol. VI, No. 2 (June 1955), pp. 93-103.
  • David Butler, ‘Counting the Votes: Some Comments’, British Journal of Sociology, Vol. VI, No. 2 (June 1955), pp. 155-57.
  • David Butler, ‘Some Recent Studies of Voting: Three Styles in Psephology’, Political Studies, Vol. III, No. 2 (June 1955), pp. 143-47.
  • David Butler, ‘An Englishman's Reflections on the Change of Administration’, American Scholar, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Autumn 1961), pp. 517-27.
  • David Butler, ‘A Comment on Professor Rasmussen’s Article’, Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. XVII, No. 4 (1965), pp. 455-57.
  • Michael Kahan, David Butler and Donald Stokes, ‘On the Analytical Division of Social Class’, British Journal of Sociology, Vol. XVII, No. 2 (June 1966), pp. 122-32.
  • David Butler, 'Instant History,' New Zealand Journal of History, Vol, 2, No. 2 (1968), pp. 107-14.
  • David Butler, ‘Some Thoughts on Ministerial Responsibility—The VIP Planes Affair’, Australian Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 4 (December 1967), pp. 36-40.
  • David Butler, ‘The Electoral Advantage of Being in Power’, Politics, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1968), pp.16-20.
  • David Butler, Arthur Stevens and Donald Stokes, ‘The Strength of the Liberals Under Different Electoral Systems’, Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 22, Issue 1 (Winter 1968), pp. 10-15.
  • David Butler, ‘Thoughts on the 1972 Election’, Politics, Vol. 8, Issue 1 (May 1973), pp. 1-5.
  • David Butler, ‘Ministerial Responsibility in Australia and Britain’, Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 26, Issue 2 (June 1973), pp. 403-14.
  • David Butler, ‘The Australian Crisis of 1975’, Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 29, Issue 9 (1975), pp. 201-10.
  • David Butler, ‘Politics and the Constitution: 20 Questions Left by Remembrance Day’, Current Affairs Bulletin, Vol. 52, No. 10 (March 1976).
  • David Butler, ‘The Renomination of M.P.s: A Note’, Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 31, Issue 2 (Spring 1978), pp. 210-12.
  • Stuart, N. L. Webb, and D. Butler, ‘Public Opinion Polls (with Discussion)’, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Vol. 142, Part 4 (1979), pp. 443-67.
  • David Butler, ‘British General Elections’, SSRC Newsletter: Social Science Research Council, 50 (November 1983).
  • David Butler, ‘Philip Williams’, PS: Political Science & Politics, Vol. 18, Issue 2 (March 1985), pp. 294-95.
  • David Butler, ‘India’s Winter Election’, Representation, Vol. 25, Issue 98 (March 1985), pp. 1-2.
  • David Butler and Bruce E. Cain, ‘Reapportionment: A Study in Comparative Government’, Electoral Studies, Vol. 4, No. 3 (1985), pp. 197-213.
  • David Butler, ‘The Benn Archive’, Contemporary Record, Vol. 1, Issue 1 (March 1987), pp. 13-14
  • David Butler, ‘General Elections Since 1945’, Contemporary Record, Vol. 3, Issue 1 (September 1989), pp. 18-19.
  • David Butler and Stephen D. Van Beek, ‘Why Not Swing? Measuring Electoral Change’, PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 23, No. 2 (June 1990), pp. 178-84.
  • Clive Bean and David Butler, ‘Uniformity in Australian Electoral Patterns: The 1990 Federal Election in Perspective’, Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 26, Issue 1 (March 1991), pp. 127-36.
  • Clive Bean and David Butler, ‘Variability and Uniformity: A Response’, Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 26, Issue 2 (July 1991), pp. 348-52.
  • David Butler, ‘The Redrawing of Parliamentary Boundaries in Britain’, British Elections and Parties Yearbook, Vol. 2, Issue 1 (January 1992), pp. 5-12.
  • David Butler and Roger Mortimore, ‘A Level Playing-Field for British Elections?’, Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 45, Issue 2 (1992), pp. 153-63.
  • David Butler, ’The Plant Report 1993: The Third Report of Labour's Working Party on Electoral Systems’, Representation, Vol. 31, Issue 116 (June 1993), pp. 77-79.
  • David Butler, ’The Legacy of Stephen King-Hall’, Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 47, Issue 4 (1994), pp. 498-500.
  • Robert Hazell, Nicole Smith, James Cornford and David Butler, ‘Reforming the Constitution: The Work of the Constitution Unit’, RSA Journal, Vol. 144, No. 5475 (December 1996), pp. 41-50.
  • David Butler, ‘Notes on Recent Elections: Australia’, Electoral Studies, Vol. 18, No. 3 (1999), pp. 411-14.
  • David Butler, Chris Lawrence‐Pietroni, Stephen Twigg and Philip Norton, ‘Roundtable on the Wakeham Report’, Representation, Vol. 37, Issue 2 (September 2000), pp. 99-106.
  • David Butler and Sarah Butt, ‘Seats and Votes: A Comment’, Representation, Vol. 40, Issue 3, (January 2004), pp. 169-72.
  • David Butler, ‘Reflections on Parliamentary Democracy’, Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 57, Issue 4 (2004), pp. 734-43.

 

Book reviews

  • D.E. Butler, ‘The English Voter, by A. J. Allen’, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A: Vol. 127, No. 3 (1964), pp. 458-59.
  • David Butler, ‘Lives of the Lord Chancellors, 1885-1940. R. F. V. Heuston. Oxford University Press, 1964. 632 pp. 63s’, Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 18, Issue 1, (August 1964), pp. 107-9.
  • David Butler, ‘The Lawmakers. James D. Barber. Yale University Press, 1965. 56s’, Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 18, Issue 2 (March 1965), pp. 345-46.
  • David Butler, ‘The Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1964’, Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 19, Issue 1 (February 1966), pp. 385-86.
  • David Butler, ‘A Victorian M.P. and his Constituents: The Correspondence of H. W. Tancred, edited by B. S. Trinder, with a foreword by R. H. S. Crossman. Banbury Historical Society. 158 pp. 25/~’, Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 23, Issue 4 (December 1969), p. 208.
  • David E. Butler, ‘Television in Politics, by Jay G. Blumler, Denis McQuail’, Journal of Politics, Vol. 32, No. 3 (August 1970), pp. 737-38.
  • David Butler, ‘British Political Crises [by Dingle Foot]’, Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 30, Issue 1 (1977), p. 114.
  • David Butler, ‘Electoral Dynamics in Britain Since 1918, by William Miller’, English Historical Review, Vol. 59, Issue 2 (July 1979), pp. 682-83.
  • David Butler, ‘PR’s PR-Woman - Power to Elect: The Case for Proportional Representation, by Enid Lakeman’, Times Literary Supplement, 7 January 1983, p. 14.
  • David Butler, 'Direct Democracy: The Politics of Initiative, Referendum and Recall, by Thomas E. Cronin’, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Vol. 2 Issue 4 (December 1990), p. 391.
  • David Butler, ‘Confidence Regained: Economics, Mrs. Thatcher, and the British Voter by Helmut Norpoth. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 229p, $34.50’, American Political Science Review, Vol. 87, No. 2 (June 1993), p. 531.
  • David Butler, ‘EXTENSIONS OF THE BURKEIAN SYSTEM, Edited by James W. Chesebro. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 1993; pp. xxi + 352’, Southern Communication Journal, Vol. XCIV, No. 392 (1994), pp. 179-80.
  • David Butler, ‘The Road to Financial Ruin - The Chancellors: A History of the Chancellors of the Exchequer 1945-90, by Edmund Dell’, Daily Mail, 14 October 1996, p. 24.
  • David Butler, ‘The Swiss Do It Most - The Referendum Experience in Europe, by Michael Gallagher and Pier Vincenzo Uleri’, Times Literary Supplement, 18 October 1996, p. 12.
  • David Butler, ‘SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party, by Ivor Crewe, Anthony King’, American Political Science Review, Vol. 90, No. 4 (December 1996), pp. 934-35.
  • David Butler, ‘Your Votes, Please - From Soapbox to Soundbite: Party Political Campaigning in Britain Since 1945, by Martin Rosenbaum’, Times Literary Supplement, 13 April 1997, p. 12.
  • David Butler, ‘The Times Guide to the House of Commons, May 1997’, Times Literary Supplement, 5 September 1997, p. 15.
  • David Butler, ‘How the Party Mood Can Shift - Party System Change: Approaches and Interpretations, by Peter Mair’, The Times, 1 October 1997, p. 24.
  • David Butler, ‘International Encyclopedia of Elections’, Representation, Vol. 38, Issue 1 (March 2001), pp. 88-89.

Theses

  • D.E. Butler, ‘The Evolution and Working of the British Electoral System, 1918-1950’ (DPhil, Oxon, 1951).

Journalistic articles

(Several hundred credits, including semi-regular contributions in Time and Tide in the 1940s, The Economist in the 1950s, The Spectator in the 1960s, The Times in the 1980s and 1990s, and the Financial Times in the 1990s.)