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Overview

Jonathan A Fox is a researcher affiliated with American University in the United States. Their scholarly work primarily falls within the domain of Social Sciences, with a focus on Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Development, and Public Administration. These subfields reflect a multidisciplinary approach to examining social and policy issues.

The main topics covered by Fox's research include International Development and Aid, Public Policy and Administration Research, Agriculture, Land Use, and Rural Development, Parathyroid Disorders and Treatments, Political Conflict and Governance, Peacebuilding and International Security, and Migration and Labor Dynamics.

Fox has published extensively, with research appearing frequently in venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University), World Development, OpenDocs (Institute of Development Studies), and The Journal of Peasant Studies. This variety of publication venues indicates engagement with both interdisciplinary academic journals and institutionally affiliated platforms.

Some notable recent papers include:

  • Contested terrain: International development projects and countervailing power for the excluded (2020, World Development)
  • Scaling accountability through vertically integrated civil society policy monitoring and advocacy (2020, OpenDocs (Institute of Development Studies))
  • Building civil society among indigenous migrants (2023, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University))
  • Pitfalls of "slippery indicators": the importance of reading between the lines (2022, Development in Practice)
  • Persistent rurality in Mexico and 'the right to stay home' (2021, The Journal of Peasant Studies)

Frequent collaborators in Fox's research include Julia Fischer-Mackey, Rachel I. Gafni, Iris R. Hartley, Kelly L. Roszko, and Karen Pozo. These coauthors often appear across multiple publications, indicating ongoing collaborative research efforts.

Best Publications

  • The Difficult Transition from Clientelism to Citizenship: Lessons from Mexico

    Jonathan A Fox

  • How does civil society thicken? the political construction of social capital in rural Mexico

    Jonathan Fox

  • The uncertain relationship between transparency and accountability

    Jonathan A Fox

  • The struggle for accountability: the World Bank, NGOs, and grassroots movements.

    J. A. Fox;L. D. Brown

  • Social Accountability: What Does the Evidence Really Say?

    Jonathan A. Fox

  • Accountability Politics: Power and Voice in Rural Mexico

    Jonathan A. Fox

  • The Politics of Food in Mexico: State Power and Social Mobilization

    Jonathan Fox

  • UNPACKING “TRANSNATIONAL CITIZENSHIP”*

    Jonathan A Fox

  • Religion as an Overlooked Element of International Relations

    Jonathan Fox

  • Indigenous Mexican Migrants in the United States

    Jonathan Fox;Gaspar Rivera-Salgado

  • World Separation of Religion and State Into the 21st Century

    Jonathan Fox

  • Latin America's Emerging Local Politics

    Jonathan A Fox

  • The Rise of Religious Nationalism and Conflict: Ethnic Conflict and Revolutionary Wars, 1945-2001

    Jonathan Fox

  • Transforming State-Society Relations in Mexico: The National Solidarity Strategy

    Julián F. Bertranou;Wayne Cornelius;Ann Craig;Jonathan Fox

  • Demanding accountability : civil-society claims and the World Bank Inspection Panel

    Dana Clark;Jonathan Fox;Kay Treakle

  • Ethnic Minorities and the Clash of Civilizations: A Quantitative Analysis of Huntington's Thesis

    Jonathan Fox

  • Decentralization and Rural Development in Mexico: Community Participation in Oaxaca's Municipal Funds Program

    Jonathan A Fox;Josefina Aranda

  • Democratic Rural Development: Leadership Accountability in Regional Peasant Organizations

    Jonathan Fox

  • Migrant Organization and Hometown Impacts in Rural Mexico

    Jonathan A Fox;Xochitl Bada

  • Mexico's Difficult Democracy: Grassroots Movements, NGOs, and Local Government

    Jonathan Fox;Luis Hernández

  • Invisible No More: Mexican Migrant Civic Participation in the United States

    Jonathan A Fox

  • Introduction: New directions in agrarian political economy

    Madeleine Fairbairn;Jonathan Fox;S. Ryan Isakson;Michael Levien

  • Contested terrain: International development projects and countervailing power for the excluded

    Jonathan Fox

  • Governance and rural development in Mexico: State intervention and public accountability

    Jonathan Fox

  • The Political Construction of Accountability Keywords

    Jonathan A Fox

  • POLICY ARENA: The World Bank and social capital: contesting the concept in practice

    Jonathan Fox

  • The Challenge of Rural Democratization: Perspectives From Latin America and the Philippines

    Jonathan A Fox

  • Assessing the Evidence: The Effectiveness and Impact of Public Governance-Oriented Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives

    Brandon Brockmyer;Jonathan A. Fox

  • The Politics of Food in Mexico: State Power and Social Mobilization

    Neil Harvey;Jonathan Fox

  • "Introduction", in The Struggle for Accountability: The World Bank, NGOs and Grassroots Movements

    Jonathan A Fox;L. David Brown

  • When does ICT-enabled citizen voice lead to government responsiveness? Digital dividends : background paper

    Tiago Carneiro Peixoto;Jonathan Fox

Frequent Co-Authors

Leonard S. Sklar
Leonard S. Sklar Concordia University
Ian Scoones
Ian Scoones University of Sussex
Nancy Lee Peluso
Nancy Lee Peluso University of California, Berkeley
Andreas Schedler
Andreas Schedler Central European University
Wayne A. Cornelius
Wayne A. Cornelius University of California, San Diego

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