Archon Fung

About

Professor Archon Fung is associated with the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard. His work focuses on developing ideas and fostering practices for equal and inclusive, multiracial, and multiethnic democracy and self-government. His research addresses pressing issues facing democracy and democratic institutions around the world, including expanding voting access and developing strategies for antiracist organizational change. He is involved in exploring the role of artificial intelligence in ethical decision-making, examining how AI systems respond to moral dilemmas and the implications for transparency and human oversight. Through his contributions, he aims to reimagine democracy by emphasizing citizen power and societal resilience, engaging with global practices for shared futures.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Public relations
• Business
• Sociology
• Law
• Environmental health
• Economics
• Biology
• Socioeconomics
• Medicine

Selected publications

• The crisis of democracy and the science of deliberation

  Science · 2019-03-14 · 543 citations

  articleOpen access

  Citizens can avoid polarization and make sound decisions

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• 1. Democracy and the Digital Public Sphere

  2021-01-01 · 50 citations

  book-chapterSenior author
  PublisherDOI

• When Deliberation Produces Persuasion rather than Polarization: Measuring and modeling Small Group Dynamics in a Field Experiment

  British Journal of Political Science · 2019-12-19 · 50 citations

  articleOpen access

  This article proposes a new statistical method to measure persuasion within small groups, and applies this approach to a large-scale randomized deliberative experiment. The authors define the construct of ‘persuasion’ as a change in the systematic component of an individual's preference, separate from measurement error, that results from exposure to interpersonal interaction. Their method separately measures persuasion in a latent (left–right) preference space and in a topic-specific preference…

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• Can transparency and accountability programs improve health? Experimental evidence from Indonesia and Tanzania

  World Development · 2021 · 41 citations

  We assess the impact of a transparency and accountability program designed to improve maternal and newborn health (MNH) outcomes in Indonesia and Tanzania. Co-designed with local partner organizations to be community-led and non-prescriptive, the program sought to encourage community participation to address local barriers in access to high quality care for pregnant women and infants. We evaluate the impact of this program through randomized controlled trials (RCTs), involving 100 treatment and…

  PublisherDOI

• Heritable Human Genome Editing: The Public Engagement Imperative

  The CRISPR Journal · 2020 · 29 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  In the view of many, heritable human genome editing (HHGE) harbors the remedial potential of ridding the world of deadly genetic diseases. A Hippocratic obligation, if there ever was one, HHGE is widely viewed as a life-sustaining proposition. The national go/no-go decision regarding the implementation of HHGE, however, must not, in the collective view of the authors, proceed absent thorough public engagement. A comparable call for an "extensive societal dialogue" was recently issued by the Inte…

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

Frequent coauthors

• Taeku Lee

  Harvard University

  348 shared

• Kevin Esterling

  179 shared

• Erik Olín Wright

  University of Wisconsin–Madison

  68 shared

• Patrick Heller

  66 shared

• Heather Gies

  Columbia University

  64 shared

• Christopher Wiley Shay

  New College of Florida

  64 shared

• Peter Evans

  64 shared

• Shawn Gude

  Columbia University

  64 shared

Similar researchers at Harvard University

• Amitabh Chandrah-67
• Patterson, Thomash-47
• Matthew Baumh-42