Office
Box 90204
Durham, NC 27708-0204
140 Science Drive, 217 Gross, Box 90204
Durham, NC 27708
Phone
(919) 660-4301
Michael C. Munger
Professor of Political Science
Director of the Philosophy, Politics & Economics Certificate
Director of Undergraduate Studies of the Department of Political Science
Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy
Professor of Economics
Bass Fellow
Areas of Expertise
- Politics--United States
- Elections
- Political Activity
- Political Analysis
- Political Campaigns
- Politics and the Press
Education
Ph.D., Washington University (1984)
M.A., Washington University (1981)
B.A., Davidson College (1980)
Bio
Professor of Political Science, and Director of the PPE Certificate Program. His primary research focus is on the functioning of markets, regulation, and government institutions. 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. He was North American Editor of the journal Public Choice for five years, and is now a Co-Editor of The Independent Review
Representative Publications
On the origins and goals of public choice: Constitutional conspiracy? Independent Review (12/2018)
30 years after the nobel: James Buchanan’s political philosophy The Review of Austrian Economics (02/2018)
Human agency and convergence: Gaus’s Kantian Parliamentarian The Review of Austrian Economics (09/2017)
Egalitarianism, properly conceived: We all are "Rawlsekians" now! Independent Review (06/2017)
Selected Grants
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