Philip Norton, Baron Norton of Louth

Philip Norton, Baron Norton of Louth

Philip Norton FRSA (* 5. March 1951 in Louth , Lincolnshire ) is a British political scientist , university professor and politician of the Conservative Party , which since 1998 as a Life Peer member of the House of Lords and as one of the leading specialists for the UK Parliament applies.

Life

After attending school, Norton completed a degree in political science and, after completing his studies, was first lecturer in political science at the University of Hull between 1977 and 1982 , then senior lecturer and finally there between 1984 and 1986 reader for political science. In 1986 he was the youngest political scientist in Great Britain to take up a professorship in political science at the University of Hull and has taught there ever since. Since 1992 he has also been director of the Center for Legislative Studies at the University of Hull.

In addition to his teaching activities, he was involved in numerous organizations and institutions and was a member of the executive committees of the group for parliamentary studies from 1981 to 1993, between 1983 and 1989 of the association for political studies, from 1983 to 1995 of the group for politics in the USA and others from 1988 to 1990 its president. Since 1991 he has also been a member of the Research Committee of Legislative Experts of the International Association of Political Scientists and was its vice-chairman from 1994 to 2003. Norton, who was President of the Political Association from 1993 to 2008, has served on the Hansard Society Council since 1997 .

Norton was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated August 1, 1998 as a life peer with the title Baron Norton of Louth , of Louth in the County of Lincolnshire . Shortly thereafter took place on 6 October 1998 on its introduction ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords . In the upper house he belongs to the faction of the Conservative Party.

Subsequently, Lord Norton, who was chairman of the Parliamentary Strengthening Commission between 1999 and 2000, chaired the Conservative Academic Group from 2000 and was also chairman of the Constitutional Oversight Committee between 2001 and 2004. Since 2010 he has been chairman of the non-partisan group for the constitution and co-chair of the university parliamentary group.

He has also been Vice-President of the Association for Political Studies since 1999 and Trustee of the History of Parliament since 2000 and was also chairman of the Standards Committee of Kingston upon Hull City Council between 1999 and 2003 .

Norton, the 1995 Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts has been since 2001 a member of the Academy of Social Sciences has been, in 2011 from the University of Lincoln an honorary doctor of the rights conferred (Hon. LLD).

Publications

Norton, who was co-editor of the journal Political Studies between 1987 and 1993 and has been editor of the Journal of Legislative Studies since 1995 , has published numerous specialist books on political topics such as:

• The Commons in Perspective (1981)
• Conservatives and Conservatism (1981)
• The Constitution in Flux (1982)
• The British Polity (1984, 5th edition 2010)
• Legislatures (1990)
• Back from Westminster (1993)
• Does Parliament Matter? (1993)
• The Conservative Party (1996)
• Parliaments in Contemporary Western Europe (3 volumes, 1998–2002)
• Parliament in British Politics (2005)
• Politics UK (7th edition, 2010)
• A Century of Constitutional Change (2011)

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage ( access on October 25, 2012)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed October 25, 2012)
• Biography in Debrett’s (accessed October 25, 2012)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Introduction of Baron Norton of Louth ( Hansard, October 6, 1998)