Joseph A. Aistrup

Education

PhD, Indiana University

MA, Virginia Tech University

BA, Fort Hays State University

About Me

Joseph A. Aistrup is a professor in the Department of Political Science. He served as dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University from 2013-2021. He came to Auburn from Kansas State University where he was associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He began his tenure at Kansas State in 2002 as associate professor and head of the Department of Political Science. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Fort Hays State in 1982, a master’s from Virginia Tech in 1984, and PhD from Indiana University in 1989.

Data Link for Aistrup and Morris

2024. Water Policy “Does institutional location matter? The effect of agency type on resource distribution for nonpoint water pollution,” doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2024.178

Publications

Representative Publications

Southern Strategy Revisited: Republican Top-Down Advancement in the South. 1996. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky.

Kansas Politics and Government: The Clash of Political Cultures. 2010. University of Nebraska Press (H. Edward Flentje and J.A. Aistrup)

“Drilling Setbacks vs Government Takings: The Case of Colorado’s 2018 Ballot Initiatives.” 2024 Society and Natural Resources 37(4): 521-544 (J. Fisk, J.A. Aistrup, B. Mahato, J.C. Morris) https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2023.2294848

“The 1990s Party Realignment of U.S. Presidential Elections: Geographic Sorting of Counties by Blue or Red.” 2023 Social Science Quarterly 104:636-668 (J.A. Aistrup, J.C. Morris, and B. Mahato). https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13288

“Dobbs, American Federalism, and State Abortion Policymaking: Restrictive Policies Alongside Expansion of Reproductive Rights.” 2023 Publius: The Journal of Federalism 53:378-404 (M.K. Mayer, J.C. Morris, J.A. Aistrup, R.B. Anderson, R.C. Kenter). https://doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjad012

“Voter Photo ID Laws in the US: The Case of a Spurious Relationship between Race and the South.” 2022  Journal of Election Administration Research & Practice 1(2): 47-68 (J.A. Aistrup, D.A. Breaux, J.C. Morris, and R. Travis).

“Climate Change Beliefs in an Agricultural Context: What is the Role of Values Held by Farming and Non-Farming Groups?” 2018 Climate Change 150 (3), 259-272 (M.R. Sanderson, J.S. Bertold, J.L. Heir Stamm, M.M. Caldas, S.M. Ramsey, J.A. Aistrup)  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-018-2283-2

“Conserving the Ogallala Aquifer in Southwestern Kansas: from the Wells to People, a Holistic Coupled Natural-Human Model” 2017 Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 21, 6167-6183 (J.A. Aistrup, T. Bulatewicz,  L. Kulcsar, J. Peterson, S. Welch, D. Steward). https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-6167-2017 (Won OpenMI Award for 2017 for the use and development of the Open Modelling Interface standard from the OpenMI Association https://sites.google.com/a/openmi.org/home/announcements/openmi-awards-2017-winners-announced)

“Opinion: Incorporating Culture in Sustainability Science Research and Policy,” 2015 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112: 8157–8159 (Caldas, M., M. Sanderson, M. Mather, M. Daniels, J. Bergtold, J.A. Aistrup, J. Heier Stamm, D. Haukos, K. Douglas-Mankin, A. Sheshukov, and D. Lopez-Carr). www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1510010112

“Hyper-Extractive Economies in the U.S.: A Coupled-Systems Approach,” 2013. Applied Geography 37: 88-100 (J.A. Aistrup, Laszlo Kulcsar, Jacob Mauslein, Sarah Beach, and David Steward). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2012.09.010

“Structured Partisan Competition: A Vote-Shares Model of Party Alignments and Realignments.”  2012. Social Science Quarterly 93: 750-778. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6237.2012.00873.x/epdf (Won Robert Lineberry Award for best paper published in Social Science Quarterly in 2012).

“Racism, Resentment and Regionalism: The South and the Nation in the 2008 Presidential Election.”  2011. American Review of Politics 32: 131-154. https://journals.shareok.org/arp/article/view/56/56

“Southern Exceptionalism? Presidential Voting in the South and non-South.” 2010. Social Science Quarterly 91: 906-27. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6237.2010.00741.x/epdf

"Constituency Diversity and Party Competition: A State and County Level Analysis." 2004.  Political Research Quarterly 57: 267-282. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/106591290405700208

“State Legislative Party Competition: A County Level Measure.” 1993. Political Research Quarterly. 46:433-46.

“Republican Contestation of State Senate Elections in the South.” 1990. Legislative Studies Quarterly. 15:227-45.