Publications

Books

• Kaare Strøm, Minority Government and Majority Rule. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.  293 pp.
• Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Richard I. Hofferbert, and Ian Budge, with Hans Keman, Torbjörn Bergman, Francois Pétry, and Kaare Strøm, Parties, Policies, and Democracy.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994.  318 pp.
• Wolfgang C. Müller and Kaare Strøm, eds., Regierungskoalitionen in Westeuropa.  Vienna: Signum Verlag, 1997.  752 pp.
• Kaare Strøm and Lars Svåsand, eds., Challenges to Political Parties: The Case of Norway.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.  408 pp.
• Wolfgang C. Müller and Kaare Strøm, eds., Policy, Office, or Votes?  How Political Parties in Western Europe Make Hard Choices.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.  319 pp.
• Gabriel A. Almond, G. Bingham Powell, Jr., Kaare Strøm, and Russell J. Dalton, eds., Comparative Politics Today: A World View.  Seventh edition.  New York: Addison-Wesley Longman, 2000.  800 pp.  Updated edition 2002.  Eighth edition 2004.
• Wolfgang C. Müller and Kaare Strøm, eds., Coalition Governments in Western Europe.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.  602 pp.
• Gabriel A. Almond, G. Bingham Powell, Jr., Kaare Strøm, and Russell J. Dalton, eds., Comparative Politics: A Theoretical Framework.  Third edition.  New York: Addison-Wesley Longman, 2001.  213 pp.
• Kaare Strøm, Wolfgang C. Müller, and Torbjörn Bergman, eds., Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.  764 pp.

Articles

• Kaare Strøm, "Minority Governments in Parliamentary Democracies: The Rationality of Nonwinning Cabinet Solutions."  Comparative Political Studies 17, 2 (July 1984), pp. 199‑227.
• Kaare Strøm, "Governi di minoranza e democrazie parlamentari." [Minority Governments and Parliamentary Democracies]  Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica 15, 2 (August 1985), pp. 167‑204.
• Kaare Strøm, "Party Goals and Government Performance in Parliamentary Democracies."  American Political Science Review 79, 3 (September 1985), pp. 738‑754.
• Kaare Strøm, "Stortinget i et komparativt perspektiv." [The Norwegian Parliament in Comparative Perspective]  Norsk Statsvitenskapelig Tidsskrift 1, 1 (December 1985), pp. 11‑24.
• Stein Kuhnle, Kaare Strøm, and Lars G. Svåsand, "The Norwegian Conservative Party: Setback in an Era of Strength."  West European Politics 9, 3 (July 1986), pp. 448-471.
• Kaare Strøm, "Deferred Gratification and Minority Governments in Scandinavia."  Legislative Studies Quarterly 11, 4 (November 1986), pp. 583-605.
• Kaare Strøm, "Contending Models of Cabinet Stability:  A Controversy."  American Political Science Review 82, 3 (September 1988), pp 223-230.
• Kaare Strøm, "Konkurransedemokratiet." [Competitive Democracy]  Norsk Statsvitenskapelig Tidsskrift 4, 3 (October 1988), pp. 226-243.
• Kaare Strøm, "Party Competition and the Politics of Economic Openness and Growth."  European Journal of Political Research 17, 1 (January 1989), pp. 1-16.
• Kaare Strøm and Jørn Y. Leipart, "Ideology, Strategy and Party Competition in Postwar Norway."  European Journal of Political Research 17, 3 (May 1989), pp. 263-288.
• Kaare Strøm, "Interparty Competition in Advanced Democracies."  Journal of Theoretical Politics 1, 3 (July 1989), pp. 277‑300.
• Kaare Strøm, "A Behavioral Theory of Competitive Political Parties."  American Journal of Political Science 34, 2 (May 1990), pp, 565‑598.
• Kaare Strøm, "Democracy as Political Competition."  American Behavioral Scientist 35, 4/5 (March/June 1992), pp. 375‑396.  Reprinted in Democracy in Comparative Perspective, eds. Larry Diamond and Gary W. Marks (Newbury Park, CA: SAGE Publications, 1992), pp. 27-46.
• Kaare Strøm, "Norway, Sweden, and the New Europe."  Scandinavian Studies 64, 4 (Fall 1992), pp. 498-528.
• Kaare Strøm, "Competition Ruins the Good Life: Party Leadership in Norway."  European Journal of Political Research 24, 3 (October 1993), pp. 317-47.
• Kaare Strøm and Jørn Y. Leipart, "Policy, Institutions, and Coalition Avoidance:  Norwegian Governments 1945‑1990."  American Political Science Review  87, 4 (December 1993), pp. 870-87.
• Kaare Strøm, "Risky Business: Democracy as Political Competition."  Journal of Social and Behavioral Sciences (1994), 1, pp. 1-23.
• Kaare Strøm, "The Presthus Debacle: Intraparty Politics and Bargaining Failure in Norway."  American Political Science Review  88, 1 (March 1994), pp. 112-27.
• Kaare Strøm, Ian Budge and Michael J. Laver, "Constraints on Cabinet Formation in Parliamentary Democracies." American Journal of Political Science 38, 2 (May 1994), pp. 303-35.
• Arthur W. Lupia and Kaare Strøm, "Coalition Termination and the Strategic Timing of Parliamentary Elections."   American Political Science Review 89, 3 (September 1995), pp. 648-65.
• Kaare Strøm, "Democracy, Accountability, and Coalition Bargaining: The 1996 Stein Rokkan Lecture."  European Journal of Political Research  31, 1-2 (February 1997), pp. 47-62.
• Kaare Strøm, "Rules, Reasons, and Routines: Legislative Roles in Parliamentary Democracies.”  Journal of Legislative Studies 3, 1 (Spring 1997), pp. 155-74.  Reprinted in Members of Parliament in Western Europe: Roles and Behaviour, eds.Wolfgang C. Müller and Thomas Saalfeld.  London: Frank Cass, 1997, pp. 155-74.
• Kaare Strøm, "Institutions and Strategy in Parliamentary Democracy: A Review Essay.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 23, 1 (February 1998), pp. 127-143.
• Kaare Strøm, "Parliamentary Committees in European Democracies.” Journal of Legislative Studies  4, 1 (Spring 1998), pp. 21-59.  Reprinted in The New Roles of Parliamentary Committees, eds. Lawrence D. Longley and Roger H. Davidson.  London: Frank Cass, 1998, pp. 21-59.
• Kaare Strøm and Wolfgang C. Müller, “The Keys to Togetherness: Coalition Agreements in Parliamentary Democracies.”  Journal of Legislative Studies 5, 3/4 (Autumn  1999), pp. 255-82.
• Hanne Marthe Narud and Kaare Strøm, “Adaptation without EU Membership: Norway and the European Economic Area.”  Journal of Legislative Studies 6, 1 (Spring 2000), pp. 125-50.  Reprinted in Delegation and Accountability in European Integration, eds. Torbjörn Bergman and Erik Damgaard.  London: Frank Cass, 2000, pp. 125-50.
• Torbjörn Bergman, Wolfgang C. Müller, and Kaare Strøm, "Parliamentary Democracy and the Chain of Delegation."  European Journal of Political Research 37, 3 (May 2000), pp. 255-60.
• Kaare Strøm, "Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies."  European Journal of Political Research 37, 3 (May 2000), pp. 261-89.
• Kaare Strøm, "Den besværlige parlamentarismen.”  [The Difficulties of Parliamentary Democracy]  Tidsskrift  for Samfunnsforskning 41, 4 (December 2000), pp. 620-38.
• Kaare Strøm and Stephen M. Swindle, "Strategic Parliamentary Dissolution."  American Political Science Review 96, 3 (September 2002), pp. 575-91.
• Raymond M. Duch and Kaare Strøm, “Liberty, Authority, and the New Politics: A Reconsideration.”  Journal of Theoretical Politics (forthcoming).
• Torbjörn Bergman and Kaare Strøm, "Shifting Dimensions Of Citizen Control In Scandinavia.”  Scandinavian Political Studies (forthcoming).
• Hanne Marthe Narud and Kaare Strøm, "Norway: Madisonianism Reborn.”  Scandinavian Political Studies (forthcoming).

Chapters in Edited Volumes

• Kaare Strøm, "Størrelsesprinsippet i koalisjonsteori."  [The Size Principle in Coalition Theory]  In Lov og Struktur, ed. Stein Ugelvik Larsen.  Bergen: Universitetsforlaget, 1987, pp. 228-236.
• Kaare Strøm and Jørn Y. Leipart, "Norway: Policy Pursuit and Coalition Avoidance."  In Party Policy and Government Coalitions, eds. Michael J. Laver and Ian Budge.  London: Macmillan, 1992,  pp. 61-108.
• Kaare Strøm and Torbjörn Bergman, "Sweden: Social Democratic Dominance in One Dimension."  In Party Policy and Government Coalitions, eds. Michael J. Laver and Ian Budge.  London: Macmillan, 1992, pp. 109-50.
• Kaare Strøm, "Oppløsningsrett og Parlamentarisme: Et Internasjonalt Perspektiv."  [Parliamentary Dissolution and Parliamentary Government: An International Perspective]  In Representativt Demokrati: Spilleregler under Debatt.  [Representative Democracy: Rules under Debate], eds. Knut Midgaard and Bjørn E. Rasch.  Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1994, pp. 222-37.
• Kaare Strøm, "Party Leadership in Theory and in Norway:  An Entrepreneurial Perspective."  In How Political Parties Work, ed. Kay Lawson.  New York: Praeger, 1994, pp. 103-31.
• Kaare Strøm, "The Political Role of Norwegian Cabinet Ministers."  In Cabinet Ministers and Parliamentary Government, eds. Michael J. Laver and Kenneth A. Shepsle.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp. 35-55.
• Kaare Strøm, "Parliamentary Government and Legislative Organization."  In Parliaments and Majority Rule in Western Europe, ed. Herbert Döring.  Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 1995, pp. 51-82.
• Ingvar Mattson and Kaare Strøm, "Parliamentary Committees."  In  Parliaments and Majority Rule in Western Europe, ed. Herbert Döring.  Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 1995, pp. 249-307.
• Kaare Strøm and Lars Svåsand, "Political Parties in Norway: Facing the Challenges of a New Society."  In Challenges to Political Parties: The Case of Norway, eds. Kaare Strøm and Lars Svåsand.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997, pp. 1-32.
• Lars Svåsand, Kaare Strøm, and Bjørn E. Rasch, "Change and Adaptation in Party Organizations."  In Challenges to Political Parties: The Case of Norway, eds. Kaare Strøm and Lars Svåsand.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997, pp. 91-123.
• Kaare Strøm and Lars Svåsand, "Beyond the Nation-State: Foreign Policy Controversies."  In Challenges to Political Parties: The Case of Norway, eds. Kaare Strøm and Lars Svåsand.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997, pp. 321-41.
• Kaare Strøm and Lars Svåsand, "Conclusion: The Limits of Entrepreneurship."  In Challenges to Political Parties: The Case of Norway, eds. Kaare Strøm and Lars Svåsand.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997, pp. 343-60.
• Wolfgang C. Müller and Kaare Strøm, “Koalitionsregierungen in Westeuropa - eine Einleitung.”  In Regierungskoalitionen in Westeuropa, eds. Wolfgang C. Müller and Kaare Strøm.  Vienna: Signum Verlag, 1997, pp. 9-45.
• Hanne Marthe Narud and Kaare Strøm, “Norwegen: Eine Fragile Koalitionsordnung.”  In Regierungskoalitionen in Westeuropa, eds. Wolfgang C. Müller and Kaare Strøm.  Vienna: Signum Verlag, 1997, pp. 199-237.
• Wolfgang C. Müller and Kaare Strøm, “Schluss: Koalitionsregierungen und die Praxis des Regierens in Westeuropa.”  In Regierungskoalitionen in Westeuropa, eds. Wolfgang C. Müller and Kaare Strøm.  Vienna: Signum Verlag, 1997, pp. 705-49.
• Kaare Strøm, "Parlamentariske koalisjoner og demokratisk ansvarlighet."  [Parliamentary Coalitions and Democratic Accountability]  In Demokrati: Vilkår og virkninger.  [Democracy: Conditions and Effects], eds. Knut Midgaard and Bjørn E. Rasch.  Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1998, pp.
• Kaare Strøm and Wolfgang C. Müller, “Political Parties and Hard Choices.”  In Policy, Office, or Votes?  How Political Parties in Western Europe Make Hard Choices, eds. Wolfgang C. Müller and Kaare Strøm. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 1-35.
• Kaare Strøm, “Leadership Accountability and Bargaining Failure in Norway: The Presthus Debacle.”  In Policy, Office, or Votes?  How Political Parties in Western Europe Make Hard Choices, eds. Wolfgang C. Müller and Kaare Strøm. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 192-215.
• Wolfgang C. Müller and Kaare Strøm, “Conclusions: Party Behavior and Democratic Representation.”  In Policy, Office, or Votes?  How Political Parties in Western Europe Make Hard Choices, eds. Wolfgang C. Müller and Kaare Strøm. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 279-309.
• Kaare Strøm, “Voter Sovereignty and Parliamentary Democracy.”  In Challenges to Representative Democracy: Parties, Voters, and Public Opinion, eds. Hanne Marthe Narud and Toril Aalberg.  Oslo: Fagbokforlaget, 1999, pp. 49-70.
• Kaare Strøm, “Parties at the Core of Government.”  In Parties without Partisans: Political Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies, eds. Russell J. Dalton and Martin P. Wattenberg.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 180-207.
• Wolfgang C. Müller and Kaare Strøm, “Coalition Governance in Western Europe: An Introduction.”  In Coalition Governments in Western Europe, eds. Wolfgang C. Müller and Kaare Strøm.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 1-31.
• Hanne Marthe Narud and Kaare Strøm, “Norway: A Fragile Coalitional Order.” In Coalition Governments in Western Europe, eds. Wolfgang C. Müller and Kaare Strøm.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000 , pp. 158-91.
• Wolfgang C. Müller and Kaare Strøm, “Conclusion: Coalition Governance in Western Europe.”  In Coalition Governments in Western Europe, eds. Wolfgang C. Müller and Kaare Strøm.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 559-92.
• Kaare Strøm, “Why Did the Norwegian Conservative Party Shoot Itself in the Foot?”  In Political Science as Puzzle Solving, ed. Bernard Grofman.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001, pp. 13-42.
• Wolfgang C. Müller, Torbjörn Bergman, and Kaare Strøm, ”Parliamentary Democracy: Promise and Problems.”  In Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies, eds. Strøm, Müller, and Bergman.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003,  pp. 3-32.
• Kaare Strøm,  “Parliamentary Democracy and Delegation.”  In Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies, eds. Strøm, Müller, and Bergman.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 55-106.
• Torbjörn Bergman, Wolfgang C. Müller, Kaare Strøm, and Magnus Blomgren,  “Democratic Delegation and Accountability: Cross-National Patterns.”  In Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies, eds. Strøm, Müller, and Bergman.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 109-220.
• Georgios Trantas, Paraskevi Zagoriti, Torbjörn Bergman, Wolfgang C. Müller, and Kaare Strøm, “Greece: ‘Rationalizing’ Constitutional Powers in a Post-Dictatorial Country.”  In Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies, eds. Strøm, Müller, and Bergman.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 376-98.
• Kaare Strøm and Hanne Marthe Narud, “Norway: Virtual Parliamentarism.”  In Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies, eds. Strøm, Müller, and Bergman.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 523-51.
• Kaare Strøm, Wolfgang C. Müller, Torbjörn Bergman, and Benjamin Nyblade.  “Dimensions of Citizen Control.”  In Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies, eds. Strøm, Müller, and Bergman.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 651-706.
• Kaare Strøm, Wolfgang C. Müller and Torbjörn Bergman, “Challenges to Parliamentary Democracy.”  In Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies, eds. Strøm, Müller, and Bergman.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 707-50.
• Ingvar Mattson and Kaare Strøm, "Committee Effects On Legislation."  In Patterns of Parliamentary Behaviour, eds. Herbert Döring and Mark Hallerberg.  Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004 (forthcoming).

Other Publications

• Kaare Strøm,"Majority Government," "Minority Government," and "Coalition Government."  In The Encyclopaedia of Political Institutions, ed. Vernon Bogdanor.  Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987, pp. 108‑109, 349‑350, 372-373.
• Kaare Strøm, "Norway."  In Yearbook on International Communist Affairs 1989, ed.Richard F. Starr.  Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1989, pp. 609‑613.  Similar entries in the 1990 and 1991 editions.
• Kaare Strøm, "Den kubiske lov." [The Cube Law] Lov og Struktur No. 33, 1990.
• Kaare Strøm, "Norway."  In Collier's Year Book 1991.  New York: Macmillan, 1991.  Similar entries in the 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997 editions.
• Kaare Strøm, "La Scandinavia e l'Europa: Eredità del passato e prospettivi per gli anni '90." [Scandinavia and Europe: Heritage of the Past and Prospects for the 1990s]  Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, Milano.  Quaderno, January 1992.
• Kaare Strøm, "Gro Harlem Brundtland."  In Collier's Year Book 1995.  New York: Macmillan, 1995.
• Kaare Strøm, "Coalition Building," "Government Formation," "Party Systems," and "Political Parties."  In  The Encyclopaedia of Democracy, ed. Seymour Martin Lipset.  Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1995.
• Kaare Strøm and Stephen M. Swindle, "Political Parties, Institutions and Environmental Reform."  Working Paper No. 2.17, Center for German and European Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
• Kaare Strøm, “Strategic Roles in Contemporary Legislatures.”  In Working Papers on Comparative Legislative Studies IV: Parliamentary Members and Leaders - The Delicate Balance, eds. Lawrence D. Longley, Attila Agh, and Drago Zajc.  Appleton, WI: Research Committee of Legislative Specialists, 1999.

Book Reviews

• Trond Nordby, ed., "Storting og regjering 1945-1985." [The Norwegian Parliament and Government 1945-1985]  Norsk Statsvitenskapelig Tidsskrift 2, 2 (March 1986), pp. 91-95.
• Kjell A. Eliassen and Morgens N. Pedersen, "Nordiske Politiske Fakta." [Nordic Political Facts]  Norsk Statsvitenskapelig Tidsskrift 2, 4 (December 1986), pp. 117-118.
• Geoffrey Pridham, ed., "Coalitional Behavior in Theory and Practice:  A Model for Western Europe."  American Political Science Review 81, 4 (December 1987), pp. 1431-1433.
• Michael J. Laver and Norman Schofield, "Multiparty Government:  The Politics of Coalition in Europe."  American Political Science Review 86, 1 (March 1992), pp. 273-274.
• Mark Franklin, Thomas T. Mackie and Henry Valen et al., "Electoral Change: Responses to Evolving Social and Attitudinal Structures in Western Countries."  Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 22, 2 (1993), pp. 254-55.
• Paul V. Warwick, “Government Survival in Parliamentary Democracy.”  American Political Science Review 90, 3 (September 1996), pp. 689-90.
• William M. Downs, “Coalition Government: Subnational Style: Multiparty Politics in Europe’s Regional Parliaments.”   American Political Science Review 94, 1 (March 2000), pp. 209-10.
• Donald R. Matthews and Henry Valen, “Parliamentary Representation: The Case of the Norwegian Storting.”  Comparative Political Studies 33, 10 (December 2000), pp. 1341-43.

Work in Progress

• Kaare Strøm, Wolfgang C. Müller, and Torbjörn Bergman, eds., Rulers, Rules, and Coalitions: Cabinet Governance in European Democracies.  Book project under contract with Oxford University Press.
• Octavio Amorim Neto and Kaare Strøm, “Presidents, Voters, and Non-Partisan Cabinet Members in European Parliamentary Democracies.” Research paper under review for publication.