Archon Fung was born on 6 April 1968 and 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.
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Archon 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.
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Archon 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.
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Archon Fung's dissertation looked at the impact of the participatory involvement of Chicago's residents, police officers, teachers, and community groups to reform education.
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Archon Fung's research took an in-depth approach understanding local governance as both an examination of a specific case but as a model for understanding urban participatory democracy.
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The themes of enabling citizens to be more efficacious within their political system is evident in the other books, projects, and articles Archon Fung has either written or contributed to.
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Archon Fung has published numerous articles on these topics ranging from more theoretical pieces such as a 2005 article in Political Theory entitled "Deliberation Before the Revolution: Toward an Ethics of Deliberative Democracy in an Unjust World" to a 2007 article appearing in the American Political Science Review entitled "Democratic Theory and Political Science: A Pragmatic Method of Constructive Engagement" which bridges theory and practice.
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Archon Fung has engaged in current politics, having published a piece for The American Prospect in May 2010, entitled "A Tea Party for Obama".
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Additionally, Archon Fung serves on the national advisory board of AmericaSpeaks and is a consultant for various organizations including the Open Society Institute and the World Bank.
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Archon Fung's projects have examined democratic reform initiatives in electoral reform, urban planning, public services, ecosystem management, transnational governance, and the role of technology within the area of transparency and governance.
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In September 2009, Archon Fung launched Participedia, a website developed with Mark Warren of the University of British Columbia, aimed at strengthening democracy with its user-generated library of examples and methods of participatory governance, public deliberation, and collaborative public action.