Fast Facts
- Assistant professor of political science, Yale University
- Research fellow, Institution for Social and Policy Studies
- Directs the Millstone Fellowship in Public Service program
- Expertise on American political institutions, separation of powers, presidential appointments, the administrative state
Areas Of Expertise
- Governance
- Congress
- Federalism
- Leadership
- Politics
- The Presidency
Christina M. Kinane is assistant professor of political science at Yale University and a research fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, where she directs the Millstone Fellowship in Public Service program. She studies American political institutions with a focus on executive politics, separation of powers, and the administrative state.
Kinane's book project, Unconfirmed Power: Unilateral Governance at the Pleasure of the President, traces more than two centuries of appointment authority in the federal executive branch and develops the concept of provisional power through a study of acting appointments. Her award-winning research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and in public policy and public health journals.
Kinane was a Levin Center Oversight Fellow. Her dissertation research received the American Political Science Association's 2021 E. E. Schattschneider Award for the best dissertation in American government and the 2020 George C. Edwards III Award for the best dissertation on executive politics.
Kinane earned her PhD in political science from the University of Michigan. She also holds an MPA from the London School of Economics and BAs in political science and economics from UCLA.