Jonathan Fox Professor Environment, Development & Health
- 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.
- See Also
- For the Media
- To request an interview for a news story, call 麻豆视频 Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.
Teaching
Fall 2024
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SIS-899 Doctoral Dissertation
Partnerships & Affiliations
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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, American 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.
麻豆视频 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 麻豆视频 Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.