The formulae of Kontsevich and Verlinde from the perspective of the Drinfeld double

A two dimensional gauge theory is canonically associated to every Drinfeld double. For particular doubles, the theory turns out to be e.g. the ordinar y Yang-Mills theory, the G/G gauged WZNW model or the Poisson a-model that underlies the Kontsevich quantization formula. We calculate the arbitrary g enus partition function of the latter. The result is the q-deformation of t he ordinary Yang-Mills partition function in the sense that the series over the weights is replaced by the same series over the q-weights. For q equal to a root of unity the series acquires the affine Weyl symmetry and its tr uncation to the alcove coincides with the Verlinde formula.