Rate My Professor Joseph Aistrup

Aistrup's scholarship centers on southern politics, party competition and realignments, elections and voter ID laws, and interdisciplinary work in environmental policy, sustainability science, and coupled human-natural systems, especially water resources and agriculture. His books include Southern Strategy Revisited: Republican Top-Down Advancement in the South (1996, University Press of Kentucky) and Kansas Politics and Government: The Clash of Political Cultures (2010, University of Nebraska Press, with H. Edward Flentje). Prominent articles are "Drilling Setbacks vs Government Takings: The Case of Colorado’s 2018 Ballot Initiatives" (2024, Society and Natural Resources), "The 1990s Party Realignment of U.S. Presidential Elections: Geographic Sorting of Counties by Blue or Red" (2023, Social Science Quarterly), "Dobbs, American Federalism, and State Abortion Policymaking: Restrictive Policies Alongside Expansion of Reproductive Rights" (2023, Publius: The Journal of Federalism), "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), "Climate Change Beliefs in an Agricultural Context" (2018, Climatic Change), and "Conserving the Ogallala Aquifer in Southwestern Kansas: from the Wells to People, a Holistic Coupled Natural-Human Model" (2017, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences). Awards include the Robert L. Lineberry Award for best paper in Social Science Quarterly (2012), OpenMI Award (2017), and several from the American Economic Development Council and National Rural Economic Development Association for economic impact studies.