Michael Munger is professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and professor of economics and public policy at Duke University.  His research interests include the study of ideology, legislative institutions, elections, and public policy, especially campaign finance.

Professor Munger received his Ph.D. in economics from Washington University in St. Louis in 1984.  He worked as a staff economist at the Federal Trade Commission, then taught in the economics department of Dartmouth College and the political science departments of the University of Texas at Austin and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  He moved to Duke in 1997 and was appointed a full professor there in 2000.  He has won three university-wide teaching awards.  His books include Analyzing Policy: Choices, Conflicts, and Practices (W.W. Norton, 2000) and, with Melvin J. Hinich, Empirical Studies in Comparative Politics (Kluwer Academic Press, 1998), Analytical Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1997), and Ideology and the Theory of Political Choice (University of Michigan Press, 1994).  He blogs at Kids Prefer Cheese, http://mungowitzend.blogspot.com/ and Division of Labour, http://divisionoflabour.com.