David Butler (academic)

David Butler (academic)

Dr. David Butler (born 17 October 1924) is a Social Scientist and Psephologist.

His most important work is the Nuffield Election Studies of each United Kingdom General Election since 1945. Since 1974, these studies have been co-written with Dennis Kavanagh. He was an on-screen expert on the BBC's election coverage from the 1950 election to the 1979 election, and was a co-inventor of the swingometer.

He is an Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1994. His wife, Professor Marilyn Butler, is a former rector of Exeter College, Oxford, and was the first woman to head a previously all-male college.

External links

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1369188.stm Sultan of Swingometers, BBC online]
* [http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/Politics Nuffield College Politics Group]


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