Kaare Strom
University of California, San Diego
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I deeply appreciate how supportive you were throughout the course. You always made time to answer questions and provide guidance when I needed it most.
About Kaare
Kaare Strom is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1984 in comparative politics, Western Europe, and democratic institutions. His research focuses on political parties, coalition theory, European politics, and the institutions of parliamentary democracy. Strom is the author of Minority Government and Majority Rule (Cambridge University Press, 1990). He is co-editor of Challenges to Political Parties, Policy, Office or Votes?, Coalition Governments in Western Europe (Oxford University Press, 2000), Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies (2003), and the textbook Comparative Politics Today: A World View. His articles have appeared in premier journals including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and European Journal of Political Research. With over 30,000 citations on Google Scholar and an h-index of 51, Strom's scholarship has profoundly shaped the understanding of parliamentary institutions and coalition governance.
Strom has garnered numerous prestigious awards, including the APSA Franklin Burdette Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper presented at the annual meeting (1983), the Gabriel A. Almond Award for the best doctoral dissertation in comparative politics (1984), and the UNESCO Sixth Stein Rokkan Prize for comparative research in political sociology (1994). In 2024, he received the Barbara Sinclair Legacy Award from APSA's Legislative Studies Section, recognizing his lifetime of significant scholarship in legislative politics. His career includes distinguished fellowships: post-doctoral fellow at the University of Rochester (1988), National Fellow at the Hoover Institution (1994-1995), Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Center in Bellagio, Italy (2001), Study Center Director for the University of California Education Abroad Program in Scandinavia (2002-2004), and Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (2004-2005). He is a Fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. Strom has served on the National Science Foundation political science advisory panel and editorial boards of leading journals.
Professional Email: kstrom@ucsd.edu