Dr. Lewis Luartz

Lewis has served as a Lecturer at Chapman University since 2019. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside working under Indriði H. Indriðason, Shaun Bowler, and André Blais (University of Montréal). His dissertation focuses on party strategies and their effects on politics, with a focus on parties in Europe and Asia, as well as radical right parties across Western Europe. Additionally, his research has explored health disparities in the United States, including those pertaining to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, and the politics surrounding populist parties and candidates in the United States and Asia.

Recent Publications:

Camatarri, S., Gallina, M., & Luartz, L. A. (Forthcoming). Always Silent? Exploring Contextual Conditions for Nonresponses to Vote Intention Questions at the 2020 US Presidential Election. International Journal of Public Opinion Research.

Camatarri, S., Favero, A., Gallina, M., & Luartz, L. A. (2022). The Electoral Behaviour of Voters with Migration Backgrounds and Natives at the 2015 and 2019 Swiss National Elections. Two Completely Different Stories? Swiss Political Science Review, 28(2), 319-337.

Luartz, L. A. (2022). Review: Where is the Structure? The Ecological Foundations of Voters’ Consistency (PhD by Marta Gallina (UCLouvain), supervisors: Pierre Baudewyns and Ruth Dassonneville (UdeM). Politics of the Low Countries, 3.

Anderson, A. T., Luartz, L. A., Heard-Garris, N., Widaman, K., & Chung, P. J. (2020). The Detrimental Influence of Racial Discrimination on Child Health in the United States. Journal of the National Medical Association, 112(4), 411–422.

Recent Conference Presentations:

“An Extensive Form Approach to Deteriorating Democratic Principles During Crises.” Presentation at the 2023 European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Meeting.

“Protest Voting without Protest Parties? Japanese Electoral Behavior during COVID” (Coauthors: Stefano Camatarri, Marta Gallina, Airo Hino) Presentation at the 2023 American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting.

“Are They Populist, After All? Populism and Party Preferences in East Asia” (Coauthors: Stefano Camatarri, Marta Gallina) Presentation at the 2022 Southern Political Science Association (SPSA) Summer Virtual Meeting.