Everett Carll Ladd Jr. (September 24, 1937 – December 8, 1999)[1][2] was an American
political scientist based at the
University of Connecticut. He was best known for his analysis and collection of public
opinion polls. He directed the
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut; the Center's mission is to collect and preserve the reports and the original raw computerized data (on
IBM cards and
tapes) of polls and surveys since the 1930s. At his death, he had amassed 14,000 surveys from many countries. He was also an expert on the opinions and careers of
social scientists.[3]
Biography
Ladd was born on September 24, 1937, in
Saco, Maine. He graduated from
Bates College, and earned a PhD in political science from
Cornell University. He was appointed professor of political science at the University Connecticut in 1964, and retired in 1999.
Ladd was critical of
grand models of realignment, and focused instead on highly specific details in major presidential elections.[5][6] In his book Ideology in America he considered a spectrum from
parochialism to
cosmopolitanism in addition to the usual spectrum between liberalism and conservatism. In a review by
L. A. Free it is asserted that cosmopolitanism may account for why "managers of big companies can realistically be described as liberals" and parochialism is why "many of the blue collar group [have] become conservative".[7]
Ladd, Everett Carll Jr.; Hadley, Charles D. (1974). Political Parties and Political Issues: Patterns in Differentiation Since the New Deal.
SAGE Publications.
ISBN978-0803903579.
Ladd, Everett Carll Jr.; Lipset, Seymour Martin (1976). The Divided Academy: Professors and Politics. New York:
McGraw-Hill.
ISBN978-0393008371.
Review in JSTOR.
Ladd, Everett (1991). Shafer, Byron E. (ed.). The End of Realignment? Interpreting American Electoral Eras.
University of Wisconsin Press. Essay – Like Waiting for Godot: The Uselessness of 'Realignment' for Understanding Change in Contemporary American Politics.
Ladd, Everett Carll (1995). "The 1994 Congressional Elections: The Postindustrial Realignment Continues". Political Science Quarterly. 110 (1): 1–22.
doi:
10.2307/2152048.
JSTOR2152048.
^Martin Lipset, Seymour; Ladd, Everett Carll Jr. (1972). "The Politics of American Sociologists". American Journal of Sociology. 78 (1): 67–104.
doi:
10.1086/225296.
JSTOR2776571.
S2CID143621351.
^Ladd, Everett (1991). Shafer, Byron E. (ed.). The End of Realignment? Interpreting American Electoral Eras.
University of Wisconsin Press. Essay – Like Waiting for Godot: The Uselessness of 'Realignment' for Understanding Change in Contemporary American Politics.