Ward Elliott (August 6, 1937 – December 6, 2022)[1][2] was an American political scientist who was the Burnet C. Wohlford Professor of American Political Institutions at Claremont McKenna College (CMC) in California.
[4] Elliott criticized the US Supreme Court's record on voting reforms in his 1974 book, The Rise of Guardian Democracy, and argued that reform should be initiated by citizens by democratic processes and not imposed from above by elites.
[5] He researched market solutions to the smog problem in Los Angeles.
Elliott drafted the economic incentives of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.
It used computers to analyze William Shakespeare's writings and published several papers on his and the clinic's findings.