Contact

Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
79 John F. Kennedy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.9846
Email: archon_fung@hks.harvard.edu

Current Position

Director, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation

July 2022 – Present

Professional History

Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government

2016 – Present

Academic Dean, Harvard Kennedy School

2014 – 2018

Acting Dean, Harvard Kennedy School

July – December 2015

Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship

2009 – 2016

Professor of Public Policy

2007 – 2009

Associate Professor of Public Policy

2004 – 2007

Assistant Professor of Public Policy

1999 – 2004

Education

Ph.D., Political Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999

B.S., Physics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990

B.S., Philosophy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990

Research Areas

Democratic governance, citizen participation, transparency policy, deliberative democracy, participatory institutions, and policy innovation.

Books

Empowering Affected Interests: Democratic Inclusion in a Globalized World

Cambridge University Press, 2024. Edited with Sean W.D. Gray.

When Democracy Breaks: Studies in Democratic Erosion and Collapse

Oxford University Press, 2024. Edited with David Moss and Odd Arne Westad.

Open Budgets

Brookings, 2013.

Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency

Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Democracy at Risk

Brookings Institution Press, 2005.

Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy

Princeton University Press, 2004.

Deepening Democracy

Verso Press, 2003. With Erik Olin Wright.

Can We Put An End To Sweatshops?

Beacon Press, 2001. With Dara O'Rourke and Charles Sabel.

Working Capital: The Power of Labor's Pensions

Cornell University Press, 2001. Edited with Tessa Hebb and Joel Rogers.

Beyond Backyard Environmentalism

Beacon Press, 2000. With Charles Sabel and Bradley Karkkainen.

Constitution, Democracy, and State Power

Edward Elgar Publishing, 1996. Edited with Joshua Cohen.

Board & Advisory Affiliations

Common Cause · Everyday Democracy · Boston Review · Deliberative Democracy Consortium · Journal of Public Deliberation · Philosophy and Public Affairs · Politics & Society

For a complete list of publications, see Papers and Books.