Seth Warner

Assistant Professor

Political Science

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Seth Warner is an assistant professor in American Politics. He studies how people relate to political parties, both in terms of ideology and as a group-based social identity. Several of his current projects draw on an original dataset that estimates affective polarization by state, county, and city/town on an annual basis from 2009 to 2023. He also actively conducts research on ideological measurement, how citizens perceive the parties, and the polarizing effects of election outcomes [1, 2].

At UConn, Professor Warner teaches courses on public opinion, elections, and state and local government. He grew up in Connecticut and earned his PhD from Penn State in 2023.

 

Selected publications

Warner, Seth B. “Whose Party is This? Explaining Ideological Perceptions of the US Political Parties.” Forthcoming in Public Opinion Quarterly.

Warner, Seth B. “Partisan animosity and protest participation in the United States.” Social Forces, 104.2 (2025): 476-494.

Warner, Seth B. “Toward an Ideological Common Space: Extending Bonica’s CFscores to the Citizen Level.” Political Behavior 46.2 (2024): 1303-1324.

Warner, Seth B. “Analyzing attention to scandal on twitter: elites sell what supporters buy.” Political Research Quarterly 76.2 (2023): 841-850.

Warner, Seth B. “Measuring executive ideology and its influence.” State Politics & Policy Quarterly 23.1 (2023): 97-116.

 

Working Papers

Warner, Seth B. “Affective Polarization across Time and Place in the United States.” Available at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5451614

Warner, Seth B. “Partisan Wishful Thinking in Polarized Times.” Available at: https://osf.io/preprints/osf/wc4qh

Phillips, Joseph B. and Seth Warner. “Election Outcomes and Affective Polarization in the United States.” Available at: https://osf.io/preprints/osf/6np8f_v1

Warner, Seth B. “Affective Polarization and Legislative Behavior.” Available upon request.