Philip Norton, Baron Norton of Louth

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Philip Norton, Baron Norton of Louth, BA , MA , PhD, FRSA, AcSS is an English author and academic. The House Magazine has called him 'our greatest living expert on parliament'.

He is currently head of the Politics Department at the University of Hull in England.

Norton graduated from the University of Sheffield with a Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy, and from the University of Pennsylvania with a Master of Arts.

In 1998, he was made a life peer with the title Baron Norton of Louth, of Louth in the County of Lincolnshire. He subsequently chaired a commission for Leader of the Opposition William Hague to design ideas for the strengthening of the institution of Parliament. He has also served as the Chair of the House of Lords Constitional Affairs Select Committee.

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  • Dissension in the House of Commons 1974-1979, Oxford University Press, 1980
  • Commons in Perspective, Martin Robertson, 1981
  • Constitution in Flux, Martin Roberstson, 1982
  • The Poltical Science of British Politics, (with Jack Hayward) Wheatsheaf Books, Sussex, 1986 ISBN 0-7450-0367-2