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Michael C. Munger, Professor and Chair, Political Science and Professor of Economics

Michael C. Munger
Contact Info:
Office Location:  408 Perkins Lib
Office Phone:  +1 919 660 4300, +1 919 660 4301
Email Address:  
Web Page:   http://www.duke.edu/~munger

Teaching (Fall 2009):

Office Hours:

By Appointment--Contact Carla St John at
cstjohn@duke.edu
Education:

PhD, Washington University, 1984
MA, Washington University, 1982
BA, Davidson College, 1980
Specialties:

American Politics
Methods
Research Interests: Institutions, Public Policy, Political Behavior and Parties

Professor of Political Science, and Department Chair. His current research includes projects on the ideology of racism in the slave South, and experiments using human subjects on spatial location games under complex information settings. Prof. Munger's primary teaching interests are methods and American institutions. His publications include four books, Ideology and the Theory of Political Choice (1994), Analytical Politics (1997), Empirical Studies in Comparative Politics (1998), and Analyzing Policy (2000). He has published widely in journals in Political Science (including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics) and Economics (including the Journal of Law and Economics, the Southern Economic Journal, and Economic Inquiry). His other work includes a variety of policy monographs and reports, for private organizations and government agencies at the federal, state, and local level. He has taught at Dartmouth College, University of Texas, and University of North Carolina (where he was Director of the Master of Public Administration Program), as well as working as a staff economist at the Federal Trade Commission during the Reagan Administration. He is a past President of the Public Choice Society, an international academic society of political scientists and economists with members in 16 countries.

Areas of Interest:

The ideology of racism in the slave South

Experiments using human subjects on spatial location games under complex information settings

Curriculum Vitae
Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. M. Munger, Policy Analysis (2000), W.W. Norton and Co., Inc. .
  2. M. Munger with Melvin J. Hinich, Analytical Politics (April, 1997), pp. 253, Cambridge University Press (published in both hardback and paperback editions. This book was reprinted, in a new Japanese language edition, by Keiso Shobo Publishers, in 1998)..) .
  3. Richard Potthoff and Michael Munger, Voter Uncertainty Can Produce Non-Single-Peaked But Not Cyclic Preferences: The Sad Saga of Ross Perot?”, Journal of Politics, vol. 67 no. 2 (May, 2005), pp. 429-453 .
  4. Sudeshna Ghosh and Michael Munger, Move to Markets? An Empirical Analysis of Privatization in Developing Countries, Journal of International Development, vol. 16 (2004), pp. 213-240 .
  5. J. Jenkins & M. Munger, Investigating the Incidence of Killer Amendments in Congress, Journal of Politics, vol. 65 no. 2 (May, 2003), pp. 31 .
  6. Gottlieb NH [first author], Goldstein AO, Flynn BS, Cohen JE, Bauman KE, Solomon LJ, Dana GS, McMorris LE and M. Munger, State legislators' beliefs about legislation that restricts youth access to tobacco products, Health Education and Behavior, vol. 30 no. 2 (2003), pp. 209-224 .