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Constitutional institutions are splendid things : an analysis of the Conservative Party's constitutional positions From 1832 To 2020 (2022)
Thesis
Pitt, D. (2022). Constitutional institutions are splendid things : an analysis of the Conservative Party's constitutional positions From 1832 To 2020. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4269857

The Conservative Party is the most electorally successful party in British policies. It has been the party of Government more than its political rivals. This is an important fact for the study of the British constitution or the policies of any Britis... Read More about Constitutional institutions are splendid things : an analysis of the Conservative Party's constitutional positions From 1832 To 2020.

Is the Westminster System of Government Alive and Well? (2022)
Journal Article
Norton, P. (2022). Is the Westminster System of Government Alive and Well?. Journal of international and comparative law, 9(1), 1-24

The Westminster system of government is one of the principal forms of government in the democratic world, yet it has been subject to myriad definitions or, with a meaning taken as given, considered by many commentators to be a diminishing phenomenon,... Read More about Is the Westminster System of Government Alive and Well?.

The Conservative Nation Redivivus? (2021)
Journal Article
Norton, P. (2021). The Conservative Nation Redivivus?. The Political quarterly, 92(3), 420-427. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.13007

This article addresses the relationship between Andrew Gamble's study of the Conservative nation and his more recent advocacy of a social democratic constitution. It argues that the former—the nature of the Conservative Party, mobilising support succ... Read More about The Conservative Nation Redivivus?.

Party Management (2020)
Book Chapter
Lord Norton of Louth, P. (2020). Party Management. In A. Roe-Crines, & T. Heppell (Eds.), Policies and Politics Under Prime Minister Edward Heath (239-59). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53673-2_11

The aim of this chapter is to assess how effective Heath was at internal management within the Conservative Party. The chapter considers Heath in relation to (a) the organisational infrastructure of the party and (b) the maintenance of good relations... Read More about Party Management.

Sir Anthony Eden (2020)
Book Chapter
Lord Norton of Louth, P. (2020). Sir Anthony Eden. In I. Dale (Ed.), The Prime Ministers (383-388). London: Hodder & Stoughton

Staying in the Saddle: James Callaghan and Parliament (2020)
Book Chapter
Lord Norton of Louth, P. (2020). Staying in the Saddle: James Callaghan and Parliament. In K. Hickson, & J. Miles (Eds.), James Callaghan: An Underrated Prime Minister? (55-70). London: Biteback

The Impact of Legislatures : A Quarter-Century of The Journal of Legislative Studies (2020)
Book
Norton, P. (Ed.). (2020). The Impact of Legislatures : A Quarter-Century of The Journal of Legislative Studies. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

The Impact of Legislatures brings together key articles and path-breaking scholarship published in The Journal of Legislative Studies during its first 25 years of publication, enabling the reader to make sense of the impact of legislatures in the mod... Read More about The Impact of Legislatures : A Quarter-Century of The Journal of Legislative Studies.

Departmental Select Committees: The Reform of the Century? (2019)
Journal Article
Norton, P. (2019). Departmental Select Committees: The Reform of the Century?. Parliamentary affairs, 72(4), 727-741. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsz043

A set of departmental select committees was agreed by the UK House of Commons in 1979 and has become a core feature of British parliamentary life. This introductory survey examines the genesis of the committees and the extent to which they constitute... Read More about Departmental Select Committees: The Reform of the Century?.

Post-legislative scrutiny in the UK Parliament: adding value (2019)
Journal Article
Norton, P. (2019). Post-legislative scrutiny in the UK Parliament: adding value. Journal of Legislative Studies, 25(3), 340-357. https://doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2019.1633778

Legislatures appoint committees for different purposes. Both Houses of the UK Parliament separate legislative committees from non-legislative, or select, committees. Each is unusual in that it utilises select committees to engage in post-legislative... Read More about Post-legislative scrutiny in the UK Parliament: adding value.

Power behind the scenes: The importance of informal space in legislatures (2018)
Journal Article
Norton, P. (2019). Power behind the scenes: The importance of informal space in legislatures. Parliamentary affairs, 72(2), 245-266. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsy018

Studies of legislatures focus on what happens in formal space, principally the chamber and committee rooms. Such studies are necessary, but not sufficient, for explaining behaviour within legislatures and its consequences. The use of space for member... Read More about Power behind the scenes: The importance of informal space in legislatures.

Politics UK (2018)
Book
Jones, B., Hertner, I., & Norton, P. (2018). B. Jones, P. Norton, & O. Daddow (Eds.). Politics UK. Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003028574

This revised and updated tenth edition of the bestselling textbook Politics UK is an indispensable introduction to British politics. It provides a thorough and accessible overview of the institutions and processes of British government, an excellent... Read More about Politics UK.

Relationship Between the Two Houses (2018)
Book Chapter
Lord Norton of Louth, P., & Maer, L. (2018). Relationship Between the Two Houses. In A. Horne, & G. Drewry (Eds.), Parliament and the Law (125-46). (2nd). Oxford: Hart Publishing

The Political Organisation of Parliament (2018)
Book Chapter
Lord Norton of Louth, P. (2018). The Political Organisation of Parliament. In C. Leston-Bandeira, & L. Thompson (Eds.), Exploring Parliament (15-23). Oxford: Oxford University Press

Legislatures and the courts: the importance of place (2017)
Journal Article
Norton, P. (2017). Legislatures and the courts: the importance of place. Journal of international and comparative law, 4(2), 171-188

Institutions of the state are studied primarily in terms of behaviour, powers and outputs. Little attention has been paid to their location and how this affects relationships between them. This article examines the effects of location through a study... Read More about Legislatures and the courts: the importance of place.

Reform of the House of Lords (2017)
Book
Norton, P. (2017). Reform of the House of Lords. Manchester: Manchester University Press

This book is the only one of its kind, providing a clear and exhaustive analysis of the different approaches to the future of Britain's second chamber. The House of Lords has long been the subject of proposals for reform - some successful, others not... Read More about Reform of the House of Lords.

A temporary occupant of no. 10? : prime ministerial succession in the event of the death of the incumbent (2016)
Journal Article
Norton, P. (2016). A temporary occupant of no. 10? : prime ministerial succession in the event of the death of the incumbent. Public Law, 18-34

The Prime Minister in the United Kingdom is head of government. He is the sovereign’s principal minister, chair of the Cabinet, and the nation’s representative at various international gatherings, including the European Council, who holds the office... Read More about A temporary occupant of no. 10? : prime ministerial succession in the event of the death of the incumbent.

The oratory of Enoch Powell (2015)
Book Chapter
Norton, P. (2016). The oratory of Enoch Powell. In R. Hayton, & A. S. Crines. (Eds.), Conservative orators from Baldwin to Cameron (74-86). Manchester: Manchester University Press

The fixed term Parliaments Act and votes of confidence (2015)
Journal Article
Norton, P. (2016). The fixed term Parliaments Act and votes of confidence. Parliamentary affairs, 69(1), 3-18. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsv003

The Government in the UK rests for its continuation in office on the confidence of the House of Commons. Until 2011, it was a convention of the constitution that a Government defeated on a motion of confidence resigned or requested the dissolution of... Read More about The fixed term Parliaments Act and votes of confidence.

Politics UK (2013)
Book
Lord Norton of Louth, P. (2013). Politics UK. Routledge

A democratic dialogue? Parliament and human rights in the United Kingdom (2013)
Journal Article
Norton, P. (2013). A democratic dialogue? Parliament and human rights in the United Kingdom. Asia Pacific Law Review, 21(2), 141-166. https://doi.org/10.1080/10192557.2013.11788271

© LexisNexis, 2013. The protection of human rights is an inherent feature of a liberaldemocracy, but there is the potential for conflict between the legislature as the representative body of the people and the courts as the interpreters of the laws p... Read More about A democratic dialogue? Parliament and human rights in the United Kingdom.

Introduction (2012)
Book Chapter
Lord Norton of Louth, P. (2012). Introduction. In P. Norton (Ed.), Eminent parliamentarians: the Speaker's lectures (1-11). Hull: Biteback Publishing

The introduction chapter explains why genre study provides a compelling theoretical and methodological framework for studying East Asian and transnational cinemas. It presents an overview of the development of genre study and identifies three interre... Read More about Introduction.

Enoch Powell (2012)
Book Chapter
Lord Norton of Louth, P. (2012). Enoch Powell. Eminent Parliamentarians: the speaker's lectures (132 - 158). Biteback Publishing

Resisting the Inevitable? The Parliament Act 1911 (2012)
Journal Article
Norton, P. (2012). Resisting the Inevitable? The Parliament Act 1911. Parliamentary History, 31(3), 444-459. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1750-0206.2012.00350.x

The Parliament Act 1911, limiting the veto power of the house of lords, constitutes a major piece of constitutional legislation in the United Kingdom. The vulnerability of the house of lords to major change was long-standing and to be found in the ac... Read More about Resisting the Inevitable? The Parliament Act 1911.

Parliament and Citizens in the United Kingdom (2012)
Journal Article
Norton, P. (2012). Parliament and Citizens in the United Kingdom. Journal of Legislative Studies, 18(3-4), 403-418. https://doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2012.706053

The relationship that has developed between Parliament and citizen in the United Kingdom has been two-way and multi-faceted. This article examines the input achieved by citizen (as voter, constituent, and member of organised interest) through party,... Read More about Parliament and Citizens in the United Kingdom.

Comparing leadership patterns and dynamics in the legislative arena (2012)
Book Chapter
Norton, P. (2012). Comparing leadership patterns and dynamics in the legislative arena. In L. Helms (Ed.), Comparative political leadership (56-76). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137264916_3

We know what legislatures are but we know much less about what they do and have little theory to help us understand what goes on within them as they shape the political agenda and achieve particular public policies.

Biographical note (2012)
Book Chapter
Lord Norton of Louth, P. (2012). Biographical note. Enoch at 100: a re-evaluation of the life, politics and philosophy of Enoch Powell (xxv - xxix). Biteback Publishing

Effective Capacity Building: The Capacity to Do What? (2012)
Journal Article
Lord Norton of Louth, P. (2012). Effective Capacity Building: The Capacity to Do What?. Parliamentary affairs, 65(3), 520-528. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gss015

This volume addresses an important subject, one that is too often neglected in the scholarly study of legislatures. I begin by addressing the premise of the volume: that is, that capacity building matters. Why does it matter? It matters because legis... Read More about Effective Capacity Building: The Capacity to Do What?.

Speaking for the people: a conservative narrative of democracy (2012)
Journal Article
Norton, P. (2012). Speaking for the people: a conservative narrative of democracy. Policy studies : the journal of the Policy Studies Institute, 33(2), 121-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2011.637328

A Conservative accepts that democracy entails government by and (especially) for the people, but what constitutes the people is seen not in narrow but in expansive terms: the people are not confined to those who constitute a present transient majorit... Read More about Speaking for the people: a conservative narrative of democracy.

Constitutional change and the tensions of liberal democracy (2012)
Book Chapter
Norton, P. (2012). Constitutional change and the tensions of liberal democracy. In J. Connelly, & J. Hayward (Eds.), The Withering of the Welfare State (71-85). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230349230_5

The past 50 years have witnessed significant changes in the constitutional arrangements of nations around the globe. Changes have been necessary in order to ensure a stable polity, achieving or maintaining some degree of balance between effectiveness... Read More about Constitutional change and the tensions of liberal democracy.

Coalition cohesion (2012)
Book Chapter
Norton, P. (2012). Coalition cohesion. In T. Heppell, & D. Seawright (Eds.), Cameron and the Conservatives: The transition to coalition government (181-193). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230367487_13

Anthony King (1976) identified different modes of executive-legislative relations. In the United Kingdom, the most visible is the opposition mode, in which the party in government is pitted against the party or parties, in opposition. This mode, as K... Read More about Coalition cohesion.

'Thatcher, 1975-9' (2012)
Book Chapter
Lord Norton of Louth, P. (2012). 'Thatcher, 1975-9'. Leaders of the Opposition from Churchill to Cameron (97 - 108). Palgrave Macmillan

A century of constitutional reform (2011)
Book
Norton, P. (2011). P. Norton (Ed.). A century of constitutional reform. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley

A Century of Constitutional Reform is a detailed study of the introduction, passage and consequences of major constitutional legislation in the United Kingdom. The book covers legislation enacted since the passage of the Parliament Act 1911, with con... Read More about A century of constitutional reform.

Divided loyalties: The European Communities Act 1972 (2011)
Journal Article
Lord Norton of Louth, P. (2011). Divided loyalties: The European Communities Act 1972. Parliamentary History, 30(1), 53-64. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1750-0206.2010.00242.x

UK membership of the European Communities (EC) was prompted by economic and political factors. It represented a novel constitutional departure; one that was contested. The proposal for membership created divisions between, and within, both main parti... Read More about Divided loyalties: The European Communities Act 1972.

Introduction: A century of change (2011)
Journal Article
Norton, P. (2011). Introduction: A century of change. Parliamentary History, 30(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1750-0206.2010.00240.x

With the United Kingdom lacking a codified constitution, there has been no extraordinary formal mechanism for amending the provisions of the constitution. Change has been achieved through parliament. The century since the passage of the Parliament Ac... Read More about Introduction: A century of change.

The Englishness of Westminster (2011)
Book Chapter
Norton, P. (2011). The Englishness of Westminster. In C. Berberich, & A. Aughey (Eds.), These Englands: a conversation on national identity (174-192). Manchester: Manchester University Press

Politics UK (2010)
Book
Jones, B., & Lord Norton of Louth, P. (2010). Politics UK. Harlow: Pearson

Politics UK is an indispensible introduction to British politics,providing a thorough and accessible overview of the institutions and processes of British government, a good grounding in British political history, and an incisive introduction to the... Read More about Politics UK.

The British Polity (2010)
Book
Lord Norton of Louth, P. (2010). The British Polity. Longman

Offering an insider's analysis, Philip Norton examines the debates surrounding Britain's political history and culture, constitution, parties and elections, branches of government, media, and relations with the European Union. Throughout, The British... Read More about The British Polity.

The politics of coalition (2010)
Book Chapter
Lord Norton of Louth, P. (2010). The politics of coalition. Britain at the Polls 2010 (242 - 265). Sage

The House of Commons 1911-49 (2009)
Book Chapter
Lord Norton of Louth, P. (2009). The House of Commons 1911-49. A Short History of Parliament: England, Great Britain, the United Kingdom, Ireland & Scotland (271 - 282). Boydell Press

The Internet and Parliamentary Democracy in Europe: a comparative study of the ethics of political communication in the digital age (2008)
Book
Dai, X., & Norton, P. (Eds.). (2008). The Internet and Parliamentary Democracy in Europe: a comparative study of the ethics of political communication in the digital age. Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1080/13572330701500763

The overall aim of this volume is to investigate the impact of new information and communications technologies (ICTs), in particular the Internet, upon parliamentary democracy in Europe. Through a comparative study of four parliaments (the British, E... Read More about The Internet and Parliamentary Democracy in Europe: a comparative study of the ethics of political communication in the digital age.

Parliamentary placements: the benefits and challenges (2008)
Journal Article
Norton, P. (2008). Parliamentary placements: the benefits and challenges. Enhancing Learning in the Social Sciences, 1(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.11120/elss.2008.01010004

I have been running placement schemes at the House of Commons now for two decades. One entails spending the third year of a four year degree (in British Politics and Legislative Studies, BPLS) on placement with an MP. Another, a more recent scheme, e... Read More about Parliamentary placements: the benefits and challenges.

The perils of a hung parliament (2008)
Book Chapter
Lord Norton of Louth, P. (2008). The perils of a hung parliament. No Overall Control? the impact of a 'hung parliament' on British politics (109 - 111). The Hansard Society

Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Parliaments: The Initial Decade (2007)
Book
Lord Norton of Louth, P. (2007). Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Parliaments: The Initial Decade. Routledge

The sudden collapse of communism stimulated both the rapid emergence of fledgling democracies and scholarly attention to the post-communist transition. These newly democratized parliaments have been described as "parliaments in adolescence". This boo... Read More about Post-Communist and Post-Soviet Parliaments: The Initial Decade.

Four models of political representation: British MPs and the use of ICT (2007)
Journal Article
Norton, P. (2007). Four models of political representation: British MPs and the use of ICT. Journal of Legislative Studies, 13(3), 354-369. https://doi.org/10.1080/13572330701500771

This paper tests four models of political representation in the UK Parliament: the traditional, party, representative and tribune. Each involves a different usage of the Internet in order to fulfil a particular role. A rational choice approach emphas... Read More about Four models of political representation: British MPs and the use of ICT.

The Constitution (2007)
Book Chapter
Norton, P. (2007). The Constitution. In A. Seldon (Ed.), Blair's Britain, 1997–2007 (104-122). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511490828.007

One area in which there was a clear divide between the parties in 1997 was that of constitutional reform. The Conservatives were defenders of existing arrangements. Labour advocated a major overhaul of the nation's constitutional arrangements. The pa... Read More about The Constitution.

Parliament and the courts : strangers, foes or friends?
Book Chapter
Norton, P. Parliament and the courts : strangers, foes or friends?. . https://doi.org/10.19152/ukscy.617

For most of the 20th Century, the constitution of the United Kingdom was seen as essentially settled. It experienced some adjustments, and at time upheavals, in the relationship between the different components of the state. These included the relati... Read More about Parliament and the courts : strangers, foes or friends?.