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Jonathan Fox Professor Environment, Development & Health

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Jonathan Fox
SIS | Environment, Development & Health
flexible, by email appt
Degrees
PhD, Political Science, MIT, 1986
BA, Politics, Princeton, 1980

Languages Spoken
Spanish
Favorite Spot on Campus
SIS Atrium
Bio
Jonathan Fox directs the Accountability Research Center, which bridges research and frontline perspectives to learn from strategies to improve public accountability.
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For the Media
To request an interview for a news story, call AU Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.

Teaching

Fall 2024

  • SIS-899 Doctoral Dissertation

Partnerships & Affiliations


  • Honorary Associate


  • Board member (emeritus)


  • Board member

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Research Interests

Transparency and accountability, democratization, governance and participation, social and environmental policy, transnational civil society, immigration and youth civic/political engagement. Current projects address reform strategies for trasparency, participation and accountability, with a focus on the global South.

Selected Publications

  • [with Julia Fischer-Mackey], "," Development in Practice, 2022
  • [with Xochitl Bada] ",鈥&辩耻辞迟; Journal of Peasant Studies, 49(1), 2022
  • "Accountability Keywords," , 11, January 2022
  • "Contested Terrain: International Development Projects and Countervailing Power for the Excluded," , 133, Sept., 2020
  • "The Political Construction of Accountability Keywords," , 49(2), March, 2018
  • "Scaling Accountability Through Vertically Integrated Civil Society Policy Monitoring and Advocacy," , Dec. 2016
  • [with Joy Aceron] "Doing Accountability Differently: A Proposal for the Vertical Integration of Civil Society Monitoring and Advocacy," , No. 4, Bergen: Chr Michelsen Institute, 2016
  • [co-authored with Tiago Peixoto] "When Does ICT-Enabled Citizen Voice Lead to Governmental Responsiveness?" , January 2016 (also published, abridged, in , 47(1) January 2016)
  • "Social Accountability: What Does the Evidence Really Say?," , No. 72, August, 2015
  • "," GPSA Working Paper, No. 1, Sept. 2014 (Global Partnership for Social Accountability - also聽in Arabic, Spanish and French translations)
  • Co-editor, Oaxacalifornian Reporting Team, , UC Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California, 2013.
  • Co-editor, , Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars/CIDE/UC Santa Cruz, 2010.
  • Co-editor, , Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2010.
  • Co-author, 鈥,鈥 Journal of Peasant Studies, 36(2), 2009.
  • Co-author, 鈥,鈥 Journal of Agrarian Change, 8(2-3), May, 2008.
  • , Oxford University Press, 2007.
  • Co-editor, , Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars/Fundar, 2007.

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

  • Outstanding Contributions to Fostering Collaborative Scholarship, SIS, 2018, 2023
  • Outstanding Faculty Mentor, SIS, 2016
  • for Exemplary Mentoring of Graduate Students in Political Science, 麻豆传媒 Political Science Association, 2013
  • LASA/OXFAM 2004 Martin Diskin Memorial Lectureship

Multimedia

  • FTA 2020 Science Conference: Forest, trees and agroforestry science for transformational change, , Sept. 17, 2020
  • Keynote address:聽,鈥 , CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry,聽Sept. 17, 2020
  • "The Political Construction of Accountability Keywords: Lessons from Action-Research," , TICTeC 2018, March, Lisbon
  • Panelist, "," Carnegie Endowment/IDS/ARC, Nov. 2, 2017
  • ," World Bank MOOC on Citizen Engagement, March, 2015
  • Co-editor (2013-2018)聽 [website on who gets Mexican farm subsidies] - 3.0 version launched in September 2013, 20m + hits.

AU Experts

Area of Expertise

Mexico, transparency, accountability, citizen participation, Hispanics, immigration, migrants

Additional Information

Jonathan Fox focuses on the relationship between citizen participation. transparency and accountability, from both scholarly and practitioner perspectives. He has carried out extensive research in rural Mexico, and with Latino immigrant organizations in the US. His projects involve dialogue with a wide range of public interest groups, grassroots organizations, development agencies, private foundations and government policymakers.

For the Media

To request an interview for a news story, call AU Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.

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