Matthew P Brown

Biographic Data

ID576356
NAMEMatthew P Brown
GIVEN NAMESMatthew P
FAMILY NAMEBrown
SIGNATUREBROWN M P
AFFILIATIONSDalhousie University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX2

  • The Mood of the Room

    Matthew P Brown, Matthew BrownARTICLEMaterial Religion2021References: 2

    The hot priest leads the protagonist—a genial bad feminist working through difficult life choices, now madly crushing on the priest—into a Quaker meetinghouse. We are watching season two of Fleabag

  • Abram C. Van Engen. Sympathetic Puritans

    Matthew P BrownARTICLEThe American Historical Review2016

    It is fair to say that twenty-first-century scholars of the literary and cultural history of early New England Puritanism might think their book will be the last word on the subject. Why? It is mainly because the wise shifting of attention away from the tiny strand between Boston and Cambridge as a point of origin for American Studies has meant a ratcheting back on monographs covering the area. But then a pithy volume such as Matt Cohen’s The Net…

  • The Fabrication of American Literature

    Matthew P BrownARTICLEAmerican Literature2014

    Book Review| March 01 2014 The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture Literary Partnerships and the Marketplace: Writers and Mentors in Nineteenth-Century America Words at Work in “Vanity Fair”: Language Shifts in Crucial Times, 1914-1930 Out on Assignment: Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern Public Space The Fabrication of American Literature: Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture. By Cohen, Lara Lan…

  • Building policy capacity at the U krainian centre

    Open AccessMatthew P Brown, M Paul Brown et al.ARTICLECanadian Public Administration2013Cited by: 5References: 5

    This article chronicles a CIDA technical assistance project to build central policy capacity in the Government of U kraine in 2000–01. Over ten months, 48 senior officials received intensive policy training and worked in policy units on priority issues. Evidence suggests that the project was effective at the individual and institutional levels: participants expressed high satisfaction with their learning; some outputs were immediately adopted by …

  • The Story of A

    Matthew P Brown, Patricia CrainARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2002

  • Boston/Sob Not

    Open AccessMatthew P BrownARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1998References: 9

    “BOSTON/SOB NOT”: Elegiac Performance in Early New England and Materialist Studies of the Book Matthew P. Brown (bio) For better or worse, historians of past societies cannot produce tangible evidence, as anthropologists do, and as inquisitors did. But for the interpretation of this evidence they have something to learn from both. —Carlo Ginzburg Student of witches and ornaments, prodigious birth and summary execution, Cotton Mather was a copious…

  • Funk music as genre

    Matthew P BrownARTICLECultural Studies1994

    But I never try to express what I actually did. I wouldn't try to do that, cause definition's such a funny thing. What's put together to make my music — it's something which has real power. It can stir people up and involve 'em. But it's just something I came to hear. Funk was not a project ... It happened as part of my ongoing thing. In 1965, I changed from the upbeat to the downbeat. Simple as that, really. I wasn't going for some known sound, …

  • Ridley's Prefectoral Administrative Function and the Case of Environment Canada

    Open AccessMatthew P Brown, M Paul BrownARTICLEPolitical Studies1991References: 4

    This study tests the relevance of Ridley's ideal-type concept of the prefectoral administrative function in a departmental setting in Canada. It follows the pursuit of administrative decentralization within Environment Canada, a complex department which has thus far introduced three prefectoral administrative mechanisms – a Regional Board, a Regional Director and a Committee of Regional Executives – for this purpose. The sliding scale of authorit…

  • Environment Canada and the pursuit of administrative decentralization

    Open AccessMatthew P Brown, M Paul BrownARTICLECanadian Public Administration1986Cited by: 4References: 1

    Administrative decentralization has suddenly become a major concern with respect to the operations of the national government in Canada. The specific catalyst has been a perceived need for greater responsiveness, and a belief that devolution of decision‐making power to officials in the field is a way to achieve it. It is nevertheless problematic whether the requisite decentralization can be achieved. For one thing, headquarters‐field relationship…

  • Responsiveness versus accountability in collaborative federalism

    Open AccessMatthew P Brown, M Paul BrownARTICLECanadian Public Administration1983

    Accountability is very much on people's minds these days, and the area of intergovernmental relations is no exception. The concern here is that the processes of collaborative federalism developed in the name of “responsiveness” have resulted in the federal and provincial governments no longer being accountable to the public they are meant to serve. This perceived problem has elicited eloquent statements of alarm and various proposals for reform, …

  • A lesson in bureaucratic persistence

    Open AccessMatthew P Brown, M Paul BrownARTICLECanadian Public Administration1982

    One of the most interesting yet seldom analysed organizational phenomena concerns ‘bureaucratic persistence.’ It speaks to the uncanny capacity of some organizations to meet the requirements of survival over long periods of time. They do so typically through adaptive adjustments in their internal and external relations. This paper provides one of the first analyses of bureaucratic persistence in the Canadian system. It records the staying power o…