Michael Hais

Michael D. Hais is a fellow with NDN and the New Policy Institute. He served for a decade as Vice President, Entertainment Research and for more than 22 years overall at Frank N. Magid Associates where he conducted audience research for hundreds of television stations, cable channels, and program producers in nearly all 50 states and more than a dozen foreign countries.

He is the co-author of Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the Future of American Politics (Rutgers University Press, 2008). He and his co-author, Morley Winograd, are currently writing their next book, Millennial Momentum: Where America is Headed, on the impact of America’s youngest generation and their technology on all of America’s institutions. It is scheduled to be published by Rutgers University Press after the 2010 elections.

Prior to joining Magid in 1983, Hais was a political pollster for Democrats in Michigan and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Detroit. He received a B.A. from the University of Iowa, an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, all in political science.