Michael Munger
Professor Munger received a Ph.D. in Economics in 1984 from Washington
University in St. Louis, and worked as a staff economist at the U.S. Federal Trade
Commission. He has also worked in the Economics Department at Dartmouth
College, and in the Political Science Departments at the University of
Texas-Austin and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill before
joining the faculty at Duke.
His administrative positions include Director of the Masters of Public
Administration Program at UNC-Chapel Hill; and President of the Public
Choice Society, an international academic society with members from 16
countries, and with a focus on interdisciplinary research on government,
markets, and regulation.
Professor Munger is currently the Chairman of the Department of Political
Science at Duke, and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of
Economics.
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Recent Research
Current Research Areas:
The endogenous basis of incumbency advantage in a complex model of
electoral competition
The
evolution of the ideology of slavery in the antebellum
south
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Office Information
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330 Perkins Library
(919) 660-4301
munger@duke.edu
(919) 660-4330
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Selected Publications
Analyzing Policy: Choices, Conflicts, and Practice,
W.W. Norton and Co., 2000
"The (un)Predictability of Primaries With Many Candidates:
Simulation Evidence," Public Choice, 2000
"The Downsian Model Predicts Divergence," Journal of
Theoretical Politics, 2000
"Five Questions: An Integrated Research Agenda in Public
Choice," Public Choice, 2000
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Course Descriptions
The Nature of Freedom (Econ 099S.02)
Liberty, Order and Hierarchy (Econ 101)
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Links
Professor Munger's CV
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