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Everett Carll Ladd, Jr. 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 mission was to collect and preserve the reports and the original raw computerized data of polls and surveys since the 1930s. At his death he had amasses 14,000 surveys from many countries. He was also an expert on the opinions and careers of social scientists.
He was born on Sept. 24, 1937, in Saco, Maine. He graduated from Bates College and earned a Ph.D. in political science from Cornell University. He joined the Connecticut faculty in 1964 and retired in 1999.
He wrote twenty books and a widely used university textbook on American government. He was awarded fellowships from the Ford, Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the Center for International Studies at Harvard, the Hoover Institution at Stanford and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, California. He has been called, "One of the leading realignment theorists."
Ladd was critical of grand models of realignment and focused instead on highly specific details in major presidential elections.
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