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Ph.D. Political Science, Indiana University, 1989
American Politics, Southern Politics, Public Policy, State and Local Government, and Research Methods

Dr. Aistrup is Professor and Interim Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences at Kansas State University. Formerly he was Head of the Department of Political Science at Kansas State University, and the Director (1999 to 2002) and the Assistant Director (1993 to 1999) of the Docking Institute of Public Affairs at Fort Hays State University. Dr. Aistrup has published in numerous scholarly journals in political science (Political Research Quarterly, Soviet Studies, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and American Review of Politics) and has published in several public policy and analysis journals (Court Review, Economic Development Review, Economic Development Quarterly, Kansas Government Journal, Kansas Business Review). He has also published a book entitled the Southern Strategy Revisited: Republican Top-down Advancement in the South (1996) with the University Press of Kentucky.

Dr. Aistrup is currently working several research projects including policy research on defining the available labor pool in states and labor sheds, an environmental policy analysis projecting the long-term viability of the Ogallala Aquifer in Western Kansas, a study of the relationship between constituency diversity and party competition at the county level in the U.S., and an analysis detailing the shifting nature of party competition in state legislatures in the American South.

Dr. Aistrup teaches courses in American politics, southern politics, political parties, elections and voting, state and local government, public policy development, planning and analysis, and research and survey methods