Dr. Doug Brown
St. Francis Xavier University
Department of Political Science
dbrown@stfx.ca;
902-867-3910; fax 902-867-3243
Lane Hall A 203
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Douglas
Brown is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, St. Francis
Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. He served as Chair of the
Department in 2012-15, as Interim Director of the Brian Mulroney Institute of
Government, 2015-16 and, since 2017, has been Program Coordinator for the
Public Policy and Governance program. A
native of Nova Scotia, he graduated with a B.A. Honours
in History and Political Science at Mount Allison University (1975), Masters
of History at Queen’s University (1978) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in
Political Science, University of Melbourne (2000). Dr. Brown attended the
University of Melbourne on a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada Doctoral Fellowship. He
is a continuing Fellow and former Executive Director (1993-96) of the
Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen’s University, Kingston,
Ontario, Canada and a former Adjunct Professor in the School of Policy
Studies, Queen’s University 1994-2005, and the Department of Political
Science, Concordia University, 2001. Dr.
Brown has over 40 years of experience in the practice and analysis of
Canadian intergovernmental relations, including with the Intergovernmental
Affairs Secretariat, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador in 1980-88. In
2002-02 Dr. Brown served as Research Director for the Government of
Newfoundland and Labrador’s Royal Commission on Renewing and Strengthening
Our Place in Canada. His
main research interest is in Canadian and comparative federalism and
intergovernmental relations, in particular economic policy-making, fiscal
federalism and regional development. He has a continuing interest in the
Australian federal system and has been a visiting scholar at the Universities
of Melbourne, Tasmania and Western Australia as well as the Australian
National University. He
is the author or editor of over 80 publications related to Canadian and
comparative federalism, including as co-editor of the series Canada: The State of the Federation
published by the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations from 1989 to1996
(See http://www.queensu.ca/iigr/pub/archive/SOTF.html
). Other
publications include: Market Rules: Economic Union Reform and
Intergovernmental Policy-Making in Australia and Canada (McGill-Queen’s
University Press, 2000) (see http://www.mqup.mcgill. ca/book.php?bookid=902). He is a co-author with Herman
Bakvis and Gerald Baier
of Contested
Federalism: Certainty and Ambiguity in the Canadian Federation (Don
Mills, ON: Oxford University Press. 2009), and the second edition published
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