Christine Kelleher Palus, PhD
Dean of College of Professional Studies; Professor of Public Administration Villanova University
- Villanova PA
Christine Palus, PhD, is an expert on adult education, urban politics and policy, state-level public administration and women in politics.
Media
Social
Areas of Expertise
Biography
Education
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
PhD
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MA
Fairfield University
BA
Select Accomplishments
Beryl Radin Award
2016
Beryl Radin Award for the Best Article in JPART for "Clerks or Kings? Partisan Alignment and Delegation to the U.S. Bureaucracy."
Select Media Appearances
College is not just for young students
Philadelphia Inquirer print
2019-09-16
As college students across the country return to classrooms for another school year, the images most often associated with back-to-school include the traditional college-age students between the ages of 18 and 21. But the reality is that more and more adults are also going back to school. By Christine Kelleher Palus, PhD, Dean of the College of Professional Studies at Villanova University.
How Donald Trump has made this election about women voters
Christian Science Monitor
2016-05-17
Vivien Goldman has a particular fascination with the rise of Donald Trump in this year’s presidential election – a fascination mixed with both a kind of respect and revulsion. ... “The general election will be a moment where women’s opinions and issues are front and center in a way they never have been before,” says Christine Kelleher Palus, professor of public administration and dean of graduate studies at Villanova University in Philadelphia, in an e-mail. “The nature of the exchanges between the candidates will reinvigorate conversations about feminism and how we perceive women leaders in today’s complex and ever-changing world.”
Select Academic Articles
Clerks or Kings? Partisan Alignment and Delegation to the U.S. Bureaucracy
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.Christine Kelleher Palus and Susan Webb Yackee
2016
A Century of Municipal Reform in the United States: A Legacy of Success, Adaptation and the Impulse to Improve
The American Review of Public AdministrationCraig M. Wheeland, Christine Kelleher Palus, Curtis Wood
2014
Oversight as Constraint or Catalyst? Explaining Agency Influence on State Policy Decision-Making
The American Review of Public AdministrationChristine Kelleher Palus and Susan Webb Yackee
2012
