About Archon Fung
Archon Fung (born 6 April 1968) is the Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Democracy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and co-founder of the Transparency Policy Project. Fung served as an assistant professor of public policy at the Kennedy School from July 1999–June 2004, then as an associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School from July 2004–October 2007, and finally as a professor of public policy from October 2007–March 2009 before being named as the Ford Foundation Chair of Democracy and Citizenship in March 2009. In 2015, he was elected to the Common Cause National Governing Board. Fung has authored five books, three edited collections, and over fifty articles appearing in journals including American Political Science Review, Public Administration Review, Political Theory, Journal of Political Philosophy, Politics and Society, Governance, Journal of Policy and Management, Environmental Management, American Behavioral Scientist, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and Boston Review. == Education == Fung received his undergraduate and graduate education at MIT, where he gained two Bachelor of Science degrees in Philosophy and Physics in 1990 and a Ph.D. in political science in 1999. == Major works == Fung's dissertation looked at the impact of the participatory involvement of Chicago's residents, police officers, teachers, and community groups to reform education. This research was published in Fung's first book Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy in 2004. The book details Fung's concept of accountable autonomy. Fung's research took an in-depth approach understanding local governance as both an examination of a specific case but also as a model for understanding urban participatory democracy. A review of Empowered Participation in the journal Environment and Planning C noted its "rigorous theoretical framework" but called it "marked by some contestable normative and political assumptions" and said: "From an empirical perspective Fung's qualitative approach remains insufficiently explored." Fung's second book Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency was co-authored with Mary Graham and David Weil in 2007.
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