Michael G. Hagen is co-author (with Richard Johnston and Kathleen Hall Jamieson) of the forthcoming The Presidential Campaign of 2000 and the Foundations of Party Politics; co-author (with Paul M. Sniderman) of Race and Inequality: A Study in American Values; and a contributor to Reasoning and Choice: Explorations in Political Psychology, winner of the American Political Science Association's Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for 1991. He has contributed chapters to several other books on American elections and published in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the British Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Political Behavior, and Public Opinion Quarterly.

Hagen was previously Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Government at Harvard University. He also has taught at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was Senior Research Fellow and Co-Director of the Annenberg 2000 Election Survey. He earned his B.A. in Political Science from Stanford University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Hagen was most recently the Director of the Center for Public Interest Polling (CPIP) at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University.

Hagen is a member of the Editorial Board of the Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics. He also has served as Program Chair of the Political Communication Division of the American Political Science Association.