October 13, 1993 –
Union League Club
New York, NY
Everett Ladd is executive director and president of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, a private, nonprofit research facility that has been affiliated with the University of Connecticut since 1977. He is also director of the Institute for Social Inquiry at the University of Connecticut.
Along with his position at Connecticut, Ladd is an adjunct scholar of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington. Since the fall of 1987, he has been a columnist for The Christian Science Monitor. He serves as a member of the editorial boards of four magazines, was for a decade senior editor of Public Opinion, is currently senior editor of The American Enterprise, is editor of the Roper Center’s magazine, The Public Perspective, and is editorial advisor in the social sciences to W.W. Norton.
A political scientist whose doctorate is from Cornell University, Ladd’s principal research interests are in American political thought, public opinion and political parties. Among his ten books are: American Political Parties; Ideology in America; Transformations of the American Political Party System; and Where Have All The Voters Gone?
Married to Cynthia Louise Northway, Ladd is the father of four children.
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