Michael Munger

Michael Munger is currently the Chairman of the Department of Political Science at Duke University.  He holds concurrent appointments at the Department of Economics and Public Policy School at Duke, and the Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill.

He received his Ph.D. in economics at Washington University in St. Louis in 1984, and has worked as a staff economist at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, as a visiting assistant professor in the Economics Department at Dartmouth College, as well as tenure track positions at the University of Texas—Austin, University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill.  He accepted his current at Duke University in 1997.  He has served as Director of the Master of Public Administration Program at UNC-CH, and is a past President (1996-8) of the Public Choice Society.

Research interests include statistical methods and “formal,” or mathematical, theories of political institutions or behavior.  In addition to more than 60 articles and papers published in the professional literature, Professor Munger has authored or co-authored three books:   Ideology and the Theory of Political Choice, (coauthored with Melvin Hinich, published by University of Michigan Press, 1994); Analytical Politics, (coauthored with Melvin Hinich, published by Cambridge University Press, 1997); and  Analyzing Policy, W.W. Norton, 2000).  He has also co-edited Empirical Studies in Comparative Politics (coedited with Melvin Hinich, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998).

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