
Patricia Bromley
Associate Professor of Education, of Environmental Social Sciences and, by courtesy, of Sociology
Graduate School of Education
Academic Appointments
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Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education
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Associate Professor, Environmental Social Sciences
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Associate Professor (By courtesy), Sociology
Administrative Appointments
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Co-director, Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (2021 - Present)
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Director, Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (2022 - Present)
Research Interests
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Civic Education
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Environmental Education
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International and Comparative Education
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Leadership and Organization
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School Reform
2024-25 Courses
- Global Social Change, Sustainable Development, and Education
EBS 306, EDUC 136, EDUC 306D, SOC 231 (Win) - Philanthropy for Sustainable Development
EBS 222, ETHICSOC 232T, POLISCI 236, POLISCI 236S (Spr) - Seminar in Organizations and Institutions
EDUC 456, SOC 210 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Workshop: Comparative Sociology
EDUC 387, SOC 311A (Aut, Win, Spr) - World Education Reform Database (WERD) Lab
EDUC 387A (Aut, Win, Spr) -
Independent Studies (6)
- Coterminal MA research apprenticeship
SOC 292 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Directed Reading
EDUC 480 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Directed Reading in Education
EDUC 180 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Directed Research
EDUC 490 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Directed Research in Education
EDUC 190 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Honors Research
EDUC 140 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Coterminal MA research apprenticeship
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- World Education Reform Database (WERD) Lab
EDUC 387A (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
2022-23 Courses
- Global Social Change, Sustainable Development, and Education
EDUC 136, EDUC 306D, SOC 231, SUSTAIN 226 (Win) - Introduction to International and Comparative Education
EDUC 202 (Aut) - Philanthropy and Civil Society
EDUC 374, POLISCI 334, SOC 374, SUSTAIN 324 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Philanthropy for Sustainable Development
ETHICSOC 232T, POLISCI 236, POLISCI 236S, SUSTAIN 222 (Spr) - Seminar in Organizations and Institutions
EDUC 456, SOC 210 (Spr) - Workshop: Comparative Sociology
EDUC 387, SOC 311A (Aut, Win, Spr)
2021-22 Courses
- Introduction to International and Comparative Education
EDUC 202 (Aut) - Philanthropy and Civil Society
EDUC 374 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Philanthropy and Civil Society
LAW 7071 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Philanthropy and Civil Society
POLISCI 334, SOC 374 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Research Workshop in International Education
EDUC 311 (Aut, Win) - Workshop: Comparative Sociology
EDUC 387, SOC 311A (Aut, Win, Spr)
- World Education Reform Database (WERD) Lab
Stanford Advisees
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Postdoctoral Faculty Sponsor
Jared Furuta -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Rachel Salia, Heitor Santos -
Master's Program Advisor
Becca Cho, Isabelle Coloma, Yura Oh, Xiangqian Yu -
Doctoral (Program)
Haley Lepp, Tom Nachtigal, Rachel Salia, Heitor Santos, Marcia Yang
All Publications
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Globalizing opposition to pro-environmental institutions: The growth of counter climate change organizations around the world, 1990 to 2018.
PloS one
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
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Advancing Global Social Change: Systems Approaches to the Role of Nonprofits in Climate Policy
NONPROFIT POLICY FORUM
2024
View details for DOI 10.1515/npf-2024-0030
View details for Web of Science ID 001309681900001
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World Society, Women Authors, and the Expansion of Feminist, Gender, Sex, and Sexuality (FGSS) Research in Comparative Education, 1957-2010
COMPARATIVE EDUCATION REVIEW
2024
View details for DOI 10.1086/731725
View details for Web of Science ID 001282442900001
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Data as the new panacea: trends in global education reforms, 1970-2018
COMPARATIVE EDUCATION
2024
View details for DOI 10.1080/03050068.2024.2336371
View details for Web of Science ID 001228622700001
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The Social Effects of Entrepreneurship on Society and Some Potential Remedies: Four Provocations
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT INQUIRY
2023
View details for DOI 10.1177/10564926231181555
View details for Web of Science ID 001013776100001
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Climate change discourse in US history textbooks from California and Texas
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESEARCH
2023
View details for DOI 10.1080/13504622.2023.2206595
View details for Web of Science ID 000992194200001
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Rights, conflict, and removal: depictions of Indigenous groups in Californian and Texan history textbooks, 1836-2019
JOURNAL OF CURRICULUM STUDIES
2023
View details for DOI 10.1080/00220272.2023.2177123
View details for Web of Science ID 000935231500001
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Global Determinants of Education Reform, 1960 to 2017
SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION
2023
View details for DOI 10.1177/00380407221146773
View details for Web of Science ID 000908071900001
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Global Neoliberalism as a Cultural Order and Its Expansive Educational Effects
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY
2021
View details for DOI 10.1080/00207659.2021.2015665
View details for Web of Science ID 000744736900001
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Neoliberal governance, evaluations, and the rise of win-win ideology in corporate responsibility discourse, 1960-2010
SOCIO-ECONOMIC REVIEW
2021
View details for DOI 10.1093/ser/mwab001
View details for Web of Science ID 000792247100001
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Education reform in the twenty-first century: declining emphases in international organisation reports, 1998-2018
GLOBALISATION SOCIETIES AND EDUCATION
2020
View details for DOI 10.1080/14767724.2020.1816159
View details for Web of Science ID 000567585500001
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Contentions over World Culture: The Rise of Legal Restrictions on Foreign Funding to NGOs, 1994-2015
SOCIAL FORCES
2020; 99 (1): 281–304
View details for DOI 10.1093/sf/soz138
View details for Web of Science ID 000593191900036
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Content Analysis of Textbooks via Natural Language Processing: Findings on Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in Texas US History Textbooks
AERA OPEN
2020; 6 (3)
View details for DOI 10.1177/2332858420940312
View details for Web of Science ID 000553950300001
- 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
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The Pyramid of Nonprofit Responsibility: The Institutionalization of Organizational Responsibility Across Sectors
VOLUNTAS
2018; 29 (6): 1300–1314
View details for DOI 10.1007/s11266-018-0038-3
View details for Web of Science ID 000451481500012
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Organizing for Education: A Cross-National, Longitudinal Study of Civil Society Organizations and Education Outcomes
VOLUNTAS
2018; 29 (3): 526–40
View details for DOI 10.1007/s11266-018-9979-9
View details for Web of Science ID 000440114900007
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Education for global citizenship and sustainable development in social science textbooks
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATION
2017; 52 (4): 460-476
View details for DOI 10.1111/ejed.12240
View details for Web of Science ID 000414363400008
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"They Are All Organizations": The Cultural Roots of Blurring Between the Nonprofit, Business, and Government Sectors
ADMINISTRATION & SOCIETY
2017; 49 (7): 939–66
View details for DOI 10.1177/0095399714548268
View details for Web of Science ID 000404789900001
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Casting call: The expanding nature of actorhood in US firms, 1960-2010
ACCOUNTING ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIETY
2017; 59: 3-20
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.aos.2017.06.001
View details for Web of Science ID 000406568000002
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The rise of individual agency in conceptions of society: Textbooks worldwide, 1950-2011
INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGY
2017; 32 (1): 38-60
View details for DOI 10.1177/0268580916675525
View details for Web of Science ID 000397222900003
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A tale of two worlds: the interstate system and world society in social science textbooks, 1950-2011
GLOBALISATION SOCIETIES AND EDUCATION
2017; 15 (4): 425-447
View details for DOI 10.1080/14767724.2016.1195730
View details for Web of Science ID 000407446300004
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"WALK THE LINE": HOW INSTITUTIONAL INFLUENCES CONSTRAIN ELITES
HOW INSTITUTIONS MATTER!
2017; 48B: 281-309
View details for DOI 10.1108/S0733-558X201600048B010
View details for Web of Science ID 000410829700010
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Policy and Administration as Culture: Organizational Sociology and Cross-National Education Trends
HANDBOOK OF GLOBAL EDUCATION POLICY
2016: 470-489
View details for Web of Science ID 000568970300031
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INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL DETERMINANTS OF FORMAL PLANS IN THE NONPROFIT SECTOR
INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
2015; 18 (4): 568-588
View details for DOI 10.1080/10967494.2015.1038671
View details for Web of Science ID 000364971700004
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The Worldwide Expansion of "Organization"
SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
2013; 31 (4): 366-389
View details for DOI 10.1177/0735275113513264
View details for Web of Science ID 000330221300004
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From Smoke and Mirrors to Walking the Talk: Decoupling in the Contemporary World
ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT ANNALS
2012; 6: 483-530
View details for DOI 10.1080/19416520.2012.684462
View details for Web of Science ID 000306119700010
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The Globalization of Multicultural Education in Social Science Textbooks: Cross-national Analyses, 1950-2010
MULTICULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
2012; 14 (3): 136-143
View details for DOI 10.1080/15210960.2012.696980
View details for Web of Science ID 000410507800004
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Decoupling revisited: Common pressures, divergent strategies in the U.S. nonprofit sector
MANAGEMENT
2012; 15 (5): 469–501
View details for DOI 10.3917/mana.155.0469
View details for Web of Science ID 000213834300002
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Student-Centeredness in Social Science Textbooks, 1970-2008: A Cross-National Study
SOCIAL FORCES
2011; 90 (2): 547-570
View details for DOI 10.1093/sf/sor004
View details for Web of Science ID 000300108800010
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The Worldwide Spread of Environmental Discourse in Social Studies, History, and Civics Textbooks, 1970-2008
COMPARATIVE EDUCATION REVIEW
2011; 55 (4): 517-545
View details for DOI 10.1086/660797
View details for Web of Science ID 000296057900002
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Multiculturalism and human rights in civic education: the case of British Columbia, Canada
EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
2011; 53 (2): 151-164
View details for DOI 10.1080/00131881.2011.572363
View details for Web of Science ID 000290679800004
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The Rationalization of Educational Development: Scientific Activity among International Nongovernmental Organizations
COMPARATIVE EDUCATION REVIEW
2010; 54 (4): 577-601
View details for Web of Science ID 000282821700005
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Human Rights in Social Science Textbooks: Cross-national Analyses, 1970-2008
SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION
2010; 83 (2): 111-134
View details for DOI 10.1177/0038040710367936
View details for Web of Science ID 000278455600002
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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
2010; 40 (5): 575-588
View details for DOI 10.1080/03057920903254972
View details for Web of Science ID 000208552200003
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The Valorization of Humanity and Diversity
MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION REVIEW
2009; 1 (1): 29-54
View details for DOI 10.1080/23770031.2009.11102862
View details for Web of Science ID 000410197700002