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42
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22445
World Ranking
417
National Ranking
232

Overview

Archon Fung is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans a range of topics related to governance, public health, ethics, and democratic processes.

Their recent publications include:

  • Conflict of interest in government: Avoiding ethical and conceptual mistakes, 2024, Governance
  • Can transparency and accountability programs improve health? Experimental evidence from Indonesia and Tanzania, 2021, World Development
  • Heritable Human Genome Editing: The Public Engagement Imperative, 2020, The CRISPR Journal
  • Can transparency and accountability programs improve health? Experimental evidence from Indonesia and Tanzania, 2020, Harvard Dataverse
  • Afterword: Does Deliberative Democracy Have a Role in Our Time of Political Crisis?, 2020, Journal of Deliberative Democracy

The topics covered in their work include:

  • Social Media and Politics
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Healthcare Systems and Reforms
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
  • Innovation and Socioeconomic Development

Archon Fung's research falls within several subfields of study, such as:

  • General Health Professions
  • Communication
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Finance
  • Nutrition and Dietetics

Publication venues where Fung frequently contributes include:

  • Philosophy & Public Affairs
  • World Development
  • The CRISPR Journal
  • Journal of Deliberative Democracy
  • Governance

The scientist collaborates often with several co-authors, including:

  • Anna Stilz
  • Nico Cornell
  • Garrett Cullity
  • Marc Fleurbaey
  • Johann Frick

Best Publications

  • Varieties of Participation in Complex Governance

    Archon Fung

  • Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance

    Archon Fung;Erik Olin Wright;Rebecca Abers

  • Deepening Democracy: Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance

    Archon Fung;Erik Olin Wright

  • Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy

    Archon Fung

  • Survey Article: Recipes for Public Spheres: Eight Institutional Design Choices and Their Consequences*

    Archon Fung

  • Full disclosure : the perils and promise of transparency

    Archon Fung;Mary Graham;David Weil

  • A systemic approach to deliberative democracy

    Jane J. Mansbridge;James Bohman;Simone Chambers;Thomas Christiano

  • The Place of Self‐Interest and the Role of Power in Deliberative Democracy*

    Jane Mansbridge;James Bohman;Simone Chambers;David Estlund

  • Putting the Public Back into Governance: The Challenges of Citizen Participation and Its Future

    Archon Fung

  • Associations and Democracy: Between Theories, Hopes, and Realities

    Archon Fung

  • Deliberation before the Revolution Toward an Ethics of Deliberative Democracy in an Unjust World

    Archon Fung

  • The crisis of democracy and the science of deliberation.

    John S. Dryzek;André Bächtiger;Simone Chambers;Joshua Cohen

  • The Effectiveness of Regulatory Disclosure Policies.

    David Weil;David Weil;Archon Fung;Mary Graham;Elena Fagotto

  • Does Transparency Improve Governance

    Stephen Kosack;Stephen Kosack;Archon Fung

  • Democratic Theory and Political Science: A Pragmatic Method of Constructive Engagement

    Archon Fung

  • Future Directions for Public Deliberation

    Peter Levine;Archon Fung;John W. Gastil

  • FORUM: Reinventing Environmental Regulation from the Grassroots Up: Explaining and Expanding the Success of the Toxics Release Inventory.

    Archon Fung;Dara O'rourke

  • Six Models for the Internet + Politics

    Archon Fung;Hollie Russon Gilman;Jennifer Shkabatur

  • Infotopia: Unleashing the Democratic Power of Transparency*

    Archon Fung

  • Ratcheting labor standards : regulation for continuous improvement in the global workplace

    Charles Sabel;O'Rourke Dara;Archon Fung

  • Deliberative Democracy and International Labor Standards

    Archon Fung

  • Open Budgets: The Political Economy of Transparency, Participation, and Accountability

    Sanjeev Khagram;Archon Fung;Paolo de Renzio

  • Empowered Participation in Urban Governance: The Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalization Program

    Elena Fagotto;Archon Fung

  • Six Models for the Internet & Politics

    Archon Fung;Hollie Russon-Gilman;Jennifer Shkabatur

Frequent Co-Authors

David N. Weil
David N. Weil Brown University
Charles F. Sabel
Charles F. Sabel Columbia University
Jane Mansbridge
Jane Mansbridge Harvard University
Mark E. Warren
Mark E. Warren University of British Columbia
Erik Olin Wright
Erik Olin Wright University of Wisconsin–Madison
Dennis F. Thompson
Dennis F. Thompson Harvard University
Andreas Follesdal
Andreas Follesdal University of Oslo
Catherine Boone
Catherine Boone London School of Economics and Political Science
Joel Rogers
Joel Rogers University of Wisconsin–Madison
Simon Niemeyer
Simon Niemeyer University of Canberra

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