Philip Norton, Baron Norton of Louth

Philip Norton, Baron Norton of Louth, of Louth in the County of Lincolnshire FRSA ( born March 5, in Louth, Lincolnshire, 1951 ) is a British political scientist, university teacher and politician of the Conservative Party, which since 1998 as a life peer member of the House of Lords and is regarded as one of the leading specialists for the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Life

After schooling Norton holds a degree in political science and was after graduating first 1977-1982 Lecturer of Political Science at the University of Hull, then Senior Lecturer and finally between 1984 and 1986 there Reader of Political Science. In 1986, he became the youngest political scientists in the UK, a professor of political science at the University of Hull and teaching ever since. Since 1992 he is also director of the Center for Studies of the legislature at the University of Hull.

In addition to his teaching, he was involved in numerous organizations and institutions and was under from 1981 to 1993 including a member of the Exekutivkomiteen the group for Parliamentary Studies, 1983-1989 of the Association of Political Studies from 1983 to 1995, the group policy in the U.S. and in the years 1988 to 1990 its president. Since 1991 he is also a member of the research committee of the legislative experts from the International Association of Politikwisschaftler and from 1994 to 2003, as Vice - Chairman. Norton, who was president of the Political Association 1993-2008, is a member of the Council of the Hansard Society since 1997.

Norton was raised by a Letters Patent dated 1 August 1998 as a life peer with the title Baron Norton of Louth, of Louth in the County of Lincolnshire in the peerage. Shortly afterwards carried on 6 October 1998 his introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords. In the upper house he belongs to the Group of the Conservative Party.

In the following time functioned Lord Norton, the Chairman of the Commission to strengthen the Parliament was between 1999 and 2000, since 2000 as chairman of the academic group of conservatives and was also between 2001 and 2004 Chairman of the Supervisory Committee on the Constitution. Since 2010 he is chairman of the bipartisan group on constitutional and Co - Chairman of the Parliamentary University Group.

In addition, since 1999 he is also Vice- President of the Association of Political Studies and since 2000 Trustee of History of Parliament and was at the same time between 1999 and 2003 Chairman of the Standard Committee of the City Council of Kingston upon Hull.

Norton, who was in 1995 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and since 2001 a member of the Academy of Social Sciences, was awarded by the University of Lincoln an honorary Doctor of Laws ( Hon LLD ) 2011.

Publications

Norton, which is between 1987 and 1993 co-editor of the journal Political Studies since 1995 and was editor of the Journal of Legislative Studies, published numerous textbooks on political issues 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)