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THE LORD NORTON OF LOUTH, Prof.

BA (Sheffield), MA (Pennsylvania), PhD (Sheffield), FRSA, AcSS

Contact details

The Lord Norton of Louth

Professor of Government

 

Tel: +44 (0) 1482 465863
Office: 218, Wilberforce Building
Email: p.norton@hull.ac.uk

Profile

Lord Norton of Louth [Philip Norton] was appointed Professor of Government in 1986. In 1992 he also became Director of the Centre for Legislative Studies. In 1998 he was elevated to the peerage, as Lord Norton of Louth. From 2001 to 2004 he was Chairman of the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution. He has been described in The House Magazine - the journal of both Houses of Parliament - as ‘our greatest living expert on Parliament'.

Selected Publications

British Policy Parliament in British Politics Book by Lord Norton Poloitics UK

Books

  • (jt.ed. with X.Dai) The Internet and Parliamentray Democracy in Europe (London: Routledge, 2008)
  • (jt. ed. with D. M. Olson) Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Legislatures: The Initial Decade (London: Routledge, 2007)
  • Politics UK, with Bill Jones and others (London: Pearson Education, 6th edition, 2007)
  • Parliament in British Politics (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
  • Parliaments and Citizens in Western Europe (editor: Frank Cass, 2002)
  • The British Polity (New York and London: Longman, 4th edition, 2001)
  • Parliaments and Pressure Groups in Western Europe (editor; London: Frank Cass, 1999)
  • The Conservative Party (editor; London: Prentice-Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1996)
  • National Parliaments and the European Union (editor; London: Frank Cass, 1996)

Journal Articles

  • 'Making Sense of Opposition', The Journal of Legislative Studies, Vol. 14 (1/2), March 2008, pp. 236-50
  • 'Four Models of Political Representation: Bristish MPs and the Use of ICT', The Journal of Legislative Studies, Vol.13 (3), Sept. 2007, pp.354-69.
  • ‘Tony Blair and the Constitution’, British Politics, Vol. 2 (2), July 2007, pp. 269-81.
  • ‘Adding Value? The Role of Second Chambers’, Asia Pacific Law Review, Vol. 15(1), 2007, pp. 3-18.
  • ‘Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Legislatures: Beyond Transition’ (with D. M. Olson), The Journal of Legislative Studies, Vol. 13 (1), March 2007, pp. 1-11.
  • ‘Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Legislatures: Divergent Paths from Transition’ (with D. M. Olson), The Journal of Legislative Studies, Vol. 13 (1), March 2007, pp. 164-96.
  • ‘Regulating the Regulatory State', Parliamentary Affairs, Vol, 57, no. 4, October 2004, pp. 785-99.
  • ‘House of Lords Reform: The View from the Parapets', Representation, Vol. 40 (3), 2004, pp. 185-99.
  • ‘Discipline without Cohesion: Party Voting in the House of Lords', The Journal of Legislative Studies, Vol. 9, no. 4, Winter 2003.
  • ‘National Parliaments and the European Union', Managerial Law, Vol. 45, no. 5/6, 2003, pp. 5-25
  • ‘Governing Alone', Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 56, no. 4, October 2003, pp. 543-59.
  • ‘Playing by the Rules: The Constraining Hand of Parliamentary Procedure', The Journal of Legislative Studies, Vol. 7 (3), Autumn 2001, pp. 13-33.
  • ‘Reforming Parliament in the UK: The Report of the Commission to Strengthen Parliament', The Journal of Legislative Studies, Vol. 6 (3), Autumn 2000, pp. 1-14.
  • ‘The Individual Member in the British House of Commons: Facing Both Ways and Marching Forwards', The Journal of Legislative Studies, Vol. 5 (3/4), Autumn/Winter 1999, pp. 53-74.
  • ‘Rebels and rebellions: Conservative MPs in the 1992 Parliament' [with P. Cowley], The British Journal of Politics & International Relations, Vol. 1, no. 1, April 1999, pp. 84-105.
  • ‘Winning the War but Losing the Peace: The British House of Commons during the Second World War', The Journal of Legislative Studies, Vol. 4 (3), Autumn 1998, pp. 33-51.
  • 'The United Kingdom: Restoring Confidence?' Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 50 (3), July 1997, pp. 357-72.

Chapters in Edited Books

  • 'Tony Blair and the Office of Prime Minister', in M.Beech and S.Lee (eds), Ten Years of New Labour, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp.89-102.
  • 'National Parliaments in Europe: recent developments', in J. Th. J. van den Berg, L. F. M. Verhey and J. L. W. Broeksteeg (eds), Het Parlement, Nijmegen: WLP, 2007, 2007, pp. 209-18.
  • 'The Constitution', in A. Seldon (ed), Blair's Britain 1997-2007, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 104-22.
  • 'The Members of Parliament for Louth’, in J. Howard and D. Start (eds), All Things Lincolnshire, Lincoln: The Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2007, pp. 156-65.
  • ‘The Constitution: Fragmentation or Adaptation?’ in M. Rush and P. Giddings (eds), The Palgrave Review of British Politics 2006, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. 13-27.
  • ‘Select Committees and the accountability of the regulatory state’, in P. Vass (ed), Regulatory Review 2006-07: 10th Anniversary Edition, Bath: University of Bath, 2007, pp. 291-310.
  • ‘The Constitution: Selective Incrementalism Continues’, in M. Rush and P. Giddings (eds), The Palgrave Review of British Politics 2005, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. 14-29.
  • ‘Parliament and Human Rights’, in D. Ryland (ed), An Era of Human Rights, Patrington: Barmarick Publications, 2006, pp. 375-94.
  • 'The Conservative Party: The Politics of Panic', in J. Bartle and A. Kings (ed), Britain at the Polls 2005, Washington DC: CQ Press, 2006, pp. 31-53.
  • 'The Constitution', in K.Hickson (ed), The Political Thought of the Conservative Party since 1945, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, pp. 93-112.
  • 'Parliament and the Courts', in N. D. J. Baldwin (ed), Parliament in the 21st Century, London: Politico's, 2005, pp. 310-25.
  • Parliament and Legislative Scrutiny: An Overview of Issues in the Legislative Process', in A. Brazier (ed), Parliament, Politics and Law Making, London: The Hansard Society, 2004, pp. 5-13.
  • ‘Parliament', in A. Selsdon and K. Hickson (eds), New Labour, Old Labour, London: Routledge, 2004, pp. 190-206.
  • ‘The Role of the Conservative Political Centre, 1945-98', in S. Ball and I. Holliday (eds), Mass Conservatism: The Conservatives and the Public since the 1880s, London: Frank Cass, 2002, pp. 183-99.
  • ‘The Conservative Party: Is There Anyone Out There?' in A. King (ed), Britain at the Polls 2001, New York: Chatham House Publishers, 2002, pp. 68-94.
  • ‘Parliament', in A. Seldon (ed), The Blair Effect (London: Little, Brown, 2001), pp. 43-64.
  • ‘Barons in a Shrinking Kingdom: Senior Ministers in British Government', in R. A. W. Rhodes (ed), Transforming British Government, Vol. 2: Changing Roles and Relationships (London: Macmillan, 2000), pp. 101-24.
  • ‘Parliament in Transition', in R. Pyper and L. Robins (eds), United Kingdom Governance (London: Macmillan, 2000), pp. 82-106.
  • ‘Parliamentary Procedure: The Hidden Power?' in D. Butler, V. Bogdanor and R. Summers (eds), Law, Politics and the Constitution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 153-71.
  • ‘The Conservative Party: "In Office but not in Power", in A. King (ed), New Labour Triumphs: Britain at the Polls(Chatham NJ: Chatham House, 1997), pp. 75-112.
  • ‘The Growth of the Constituency Role of the MP', in F. F. Ridley and M. Rush (eds), British Government and Politics Since 1945: Changes in Perspective (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 207-22.
  • ‘The Parliamentary Party and Party Committees', in A. Seldon and S. Ball (eds), Conservative Century: The Conservative Party Since 1900 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), pp. 97-144.

Other Recent Output

In addition to chairing a parliamentary committee, Lord Norton has given evidence to a range of committees in both Houses of Parliament, including the European Scrutiny Committee, the Modernisation Committee, the Procedure Committee, and the Constitutional Affairs in the House of Commons, and the European Union Committee and the Select Committee on the Constitutional Reform Bill in the House of Lords. Among debates he has initiated in the House of Lords have been those on parliamentary reform, the burden of bureaucracy on universities, and the British constitution.

Pamphlets

  • Who Regulates the Regulators? (Bath: Centre for the Study of Regulated Industries, 2004)
  • Power to the People: The case for retaining our voting system (London: Conservative Policy Forum, 1998)
  • The Consequences of Devolution (ed., London: The Hansard Society, 1998)
  • ‘Think Minister'... Reinvigorating Government in the UK (London: Centre for Policy Studies, 1997)

Research

Research Interests

  • British politics
  • The British parliament
  • The British constitution
  • The British Conservative Party
  • Comparative legislatures
  • US politics and government

Teaching

Masters Teaching

  • Legislative Studies
  • Legislative Studies Online

Areas of PhD Supervision

  • British politics
  • The British parliament
  • The British constitution
  • The British Conservative Party
  • Comparative legislatures
  • US politics and government

Undergraduate teaching

  • British Politics and Legislative Studies