Academic Appointments


Administrative Appointments


  • Co-director, Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (2021 - Present)
  • Director, Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (2022 - Present)

Research Interests


  • Civic Education
  • Environmental Education
  • International and Comparative Education
  • Leadership and Organization
  • School Reform

2024-25 Courses


Stanford Advisees


All Publications


  • Globalizing opposition to pro-environmental institutions: The growth of counter climate change organizations around the world, 1990 to 2018. PloS one Furuta, J., Bromley, P. 2025; 20 (1): e0315012

    Abstract

    More than two decades of social scientific research has identified the growing network of corporations, think tanks, nonprofits, and advocacy organizations that aim to obstruct climate change action within the United States. Conventional arguments emphasize the role of economic self-interest (e.g., wealthy and powerful corporations) in shaping the rise of an organized "counter climate change movement" that seeks to discredit evidence about anthropogenic climate change and derail solutions to address the problem. In this paper, we track the growth of counter climate change organizations around the world and emphasize the role of reactionary cultural dynamics in driving their emergence. As climate change discourse is infused in more areas throughout society, climate change issues become more salient in the public sphere, generating adversarial grievances, identities, and mobilization among oppositional groups. Drawing on panel logistic regression models for 162-164 countries from 1990 to 2018, we find that counter climate change organizations are most likely to develop in countries with more extensive state policies and structures oriented toward protecting the natural environment, net of a variety of factors that account for a country's economic interests or its overall capacity to produce domestic associations.

    View details for DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0315012

    View details for PubMedID 39841633

    View details for PubMedCentralID PMC11753699

  • Advancing Global Social Change: Systems Approaches to the Role of Nonprofits in Climate Policy NONPROFIT POLICY FORUM Kagan, J. A., Bromley, P. 2024
  • World Society, Women Authors, and the Expansion of Feminist, Gender, Sex, and Sexuality (FGSS) Research in Comparative Education, 1957-2010 COMPARATIVE EDUCATION REVIEW Bromley, P., Smith, D. 2024

    View details for DOI 10.1086/731725

    View details for Web of Science ID 001282442900001

  • Data as the new panacea: trends in global education reforms, 1970-2018 COMPARATIVE EDUCATION Bromley, P., Nachtigal, T., Kijima, R. 2024
  • The Social Effects of Entrepreneurship on Society and Some Potential Remedies: Four Provocations JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT INQUIRY Weiss, T., Eberhart, R., Lounsbury, M., Nelson, A., Rindova, V., Meyer, J., Bromley, P., Atkins, R., Ruebottom, T., Jennings, J., Jennings, D., Toubiana, M., Shantz, A., Khorasani, N., Wadhwani, D., Tucker, H., Kirsch, D., Goldfarb, B., Aldrich, H., Aldrich, D. 2023
  • Climate change discourse in US history textbooks from California and Texas ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESEARCH D'Apice, H. K., Bromley, P. 2023
  • Rights, conflict, and removal: depictions of Indigenous groups in Californian and Texan history textbooks, 1836-2019 JOURNAL OF CURRICULUM STUDIES Skinner, N., Bromley, P. 2023
  • Global Determinants of Education Reform, 1960 to 2017 SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION Bromley, P., Furuta, J., Kijima, R., Overbey, L., Choi, M., Santos, H. 2023
  • Global Neoliberalism as a Cultural Order and Its Expansive Educational Effects INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY Lerch, J. C., Bromley, P., Meyer, J. W. 2021
  • Neoliberal governance, evaluations, and the rise of win-win ideology in corporate responsibility discourse, 1960-2010 SOCIO-ECONOMIC REVIEW Brandtner, C., Bromley, P. 2021
  • Education reform in the twenty-first century: declining emphases in international organisation reports, 1998-2018 GLOBALISATION SOCIETIES AND EDUCATION Bromley, P., Overbey, L., Furuta, J., Kijima, R. 2020
  • Contentions over World Culture: The Rise of Legal Restrictions on Foreign Funding to NGOs, 1994-2015 SOCIAL FORCES Bromley, P., Schofer, E., Longhofer, W. 2020; 99 (1): 281–304

    View details for DOI 10.1093/sf/soz138

    View details for Web of Science ID 000593191900036

  • Content Analysis of Textbooks via Natural Language Processing: Findings on Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in Texas US History Textbooks AERA OPEN Lucy, L., Demszky, D., Bromley, P., Jurafsky, D. 2020; 6 (3)
  • The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=30371 edited by Powell, W. W., Bromley, P. Stanford University Press. 2020
  • The Pyramid of Nonprofit Responsibility: The Institutionalization of Organizational Responsibility Across Sectors VOLUNTAS Pope, S., Bromley, P., Lim, A., Meyer, J. W. 2018; 29 (6): 1300–1314
  • Organizing for Education: A Cross-National, Longitudinal Study of Civil Society Organizations and Education Outcomes VOLUNTAS Bromley, P., Schofer, E., Longhofer, W. 2018; 29 (3): 526–40
  • Education for global citizenship and sustainable development in social science textbooks EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION Jimenez, J., Lerch, J., Bromley, P. 2017; 52 (4): 460-476

    View details for DOI 10.1111/ejed.12240

    View details for Web of Science ID 000414363400008

  • "They Are All Organizations": The Cultural Roots of Blurring Between the Nonprofit, Business, and Government Sectors ADMINISTRATION & SOCIETY Bromley, P., Meyer, J. W. 2017; 49 (7): 939–66
  • Casting call: The expanding nature of actorhood in US firms, 1960-2010 ACCOUNTING ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIETY Bromley, P., Sharkey, A. 2017; 59: 3-20
  • The rise of individual agency in conceptions of society: Textbooks worldwide, 1950-2011 INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGY Lerch, J., Bromley, P., Ramirez, F. O., Meyer, J. W. 2017; 32 (1): 38-60
  • A tale of two worlds: the interstate system and world society in social science textbooks, 1950-2011 GLOBALISATION SOCIETIES AND EDUCATION Bromley, P., Cole, W. 2017; 15 (4): 425-447
  • "WALK THE LINE": HOW INSTITUTIONAL INFLUENCES CONSTRAIN ELITES HOW INSTITUTIONS MATTER! Brandtner, C., Bromley, P., Tompkins-Stange, M., Gehman, J., Lounsbury, M., Greenwood, R. 2017; 48B: 281-309
  • Policy and Administration as Culture: Organizational Sociology and Cross-National Education Trends HANDBOOK OF GLOBAL EDUCATION POLICY Bromley, P., Mundy, K., Green, A., Lingard, B., Verger, A. 2016: 470-489
  • INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL DETERMINANTS OF FORMAL PLANS IN THE NONPROFIT SECTOR INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL Hwang, H., Bromley, P. 2015; 18 (4): 568-588
  • The Worldwide Expansion of "Organization" SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY Meyer, J. W., Bromley, P. 2013; 31 (4): 366-389
  • From Smoke and Mirrors to Walking the Talk: Decoupling in the Contemporary World ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT ANNALS Bromley, P., Powell, W. W. 2012; 6: 483-530
  • The Globalization of Multicultural Education in Social Science Textbooks: Cross-national Analyses, 1950-2010 MULTICULTURAL PERSPECTIVES Terra, L., Bromley, P. 2012; 14 (3): 136-143
  • Decoupling revisited: Common pressures, divergent strategies in the U.S. nonprofit sector MANAGEMENT Bromley, P., Hwang, H., Powell, W. W. 2012; 15 (5): 469–501
  • Student-Centeredness in Social Science Textbooks, 1970-2008: A Cross-National Study SOCIAL FORCES Bromley, P., Meyer, J. W., Ramirez, F. O. 2011; 90 (2): 547-570

    View details for DOI 10.1093/sf/sor004

    View details for Web of Science ID 000300108800010

  • The Worldwide Spread of Environmental Discourse in Social Studies, History, and Civics Textbooks, 1970-2008 COMPARATIVE EDUCATION REVIEW Bromley, P., Meyer, J. W., Ramirez, F. O. 2011; 55 (4): 517-545

    View details for DOI 10.1086/660797

    View details for Web of Science ID 000296057900002

  • Multiculturalism and human rights in civic education: the case of British Columbia, Canada EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Bromley, P. 2011; 53 (2): 151-164
  • The Rationalization of Educational Development: Scientific Activity among International Nongovernmental Organizations COMPARATIVE EDUCATION REVIEW Bromley, P. 2010; 54 (4): 577-601
  • Human Rights in Social Science Textbooks: Cross-national Analyses, 1970-2008 SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION Meyer, J. W., Bromley, P., Ramirez, F. O. 2010; 83 (2): 111-134
  • Standardizing chaos: a neo-institutional analysis of the INEE Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies, Chronic Crises and Early Reconstruction COMPARE-A JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION Bromley, P., Andina, M. 2010; 40 (5): 575-588
  • The Valorization of Humanity and Diversity MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION REVIEW Ramirez, F. O., Bromley, P., Russell, S. 2009; 1 (1): 29-54