Everett Carll Ladd Jr. (September 24, 1937 – December 8, 1999)[1][2] was an American political scientist based at the University of Connecticut.
"[4] Ladd was critical of grand models of realignment, and focused instead on highly specific details in major presidential elections.
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] He reached out to the public through a column in The Christian Science Monitor (1987–1995) and op-ed essays in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and elsewhere.
He died of heart failure on December 8, 1999, at Windham Memorial Community Hospital in Willimantic, Connecticut.