P Bromley
Biographic Data
| ID | 16392 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Bromley |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Bromley |
| SIGNATURE | BROMLEY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8345-4355 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
‘Reformism’ and the liberal culture: Global trends in education reform, 1970–2019
Amid rising backlash against democracy and economic globalisation, we examine how political and economic dimensions of liberalism shape patterns of education reform. We argue that ‘reformism’ intensifies when liberal culture is stronger at both national and global levels, reflecting the distinctive attention liberalism gives to both reform as a vehicle for social change and education as a pathway to progress. Drawing on a cross-national database …
The missing link: Democracy, Education, and Carbon Emissions
Democracy is thought to play a key role in protecting the environment: in theory, free elections and civil rights allow citizens to hold political leaders accountable, which should then lead to stronger environmental protections. Despite its conceptual appeal, empirical evidence that democratic contexts produce stronger pro-environmental outcomes has been inconclusive. We focus on an overlooked factor – the average level of education in a country…
Reimagining Nonprofits: Sector Theory in the Twenty-First Century
What is the nonprofit sector and why does it exist? Collecting the writing of some of the most creative minds in the field of nonprofit studies, this book challenges our traditional understanding of the role and purpose of the nonprofit sector. It reflects on the ways in which new cultural and economic shifts bring existing assumptions into question and offers new conceptualizations of the nonprofit sector that will inform, provoke, and inspire. …
Advancing Global Social Change: Systems Approaches to the Role of Nonprofits in Climate Policy
The existential threat of climate change requires reimagining foundational aspects of society, including jobs, transportation, energy, the built environment, natural resources, health, and water and food supplies. We argue that to realize such broad scale change requires systems thinking. In this introduction to the special issue on Nonprofits and Climate Policy, we outline four systems-based views of global social change, organized by source of …
Data as the new panacea: Trends in global education reforms, 1970–2018
This paper investigates changes in the promissory visions articulated in education reforms around the world. We use structural topic modeling to inductively analyze the content of 9,268 reforms from 215 countries and territories during the period 1970–2018 using the World Education Reform Database. Our findings reveal a decline in traditional management-focused reforms and a rise in reforms related to data and information. We also find an expandi…
Climate change discourse in U.S. history textbooks from California and Texas
Anthropogenic climate change is a scientific fact, but U.S. public discourse around the issue remains mired in controversy, including in education. Our study leverages natural language processing methods to give a precise look into the extent to which climate change-related topics are covered in 30 of the most widely used high school history textbooks in California and Texas. We find that history textbooks situate climate change-related topics wi…
Global Determinants of Education Reform, 1960 to 2017
Since post-World War II and especially throughout the 1990s, the globalization of a liberal international order propelled a wave of education reforms around the world. However, recent challenges to the legitimacy of the liberal order may undercut the prevalence of education reform across countries. To reveal how global changes are influencing education, we draw on a newly constructed data set of 6,696 education reforms in 147 countries from 1960 …
Education reform in the twenty-first century: Declining emphases in international organisation reports, 1998–2018
The liberal and neoliberal world order is increasingly under attack. Global levels of democracy have been declining for over a decade, accompanied by rollbacks in some kinds of rights. We examine the implications of increasing criticisms of the (neo)-liberal era over time for educational reform discourse around the world by drawing on a unique primary dataset of 473 reports produced by international organisations between 1998 and 2018. Extending …
Empowered individualism in world culture: Agency and equality in Canadian textbooks, 1871–2006
The sacred status of individuals is a central pillar of world culture in research on education and beyond. The intended socialisation of students is increasingly to become empowered individuals who respect human equality and diversity in a globally interconnected world. At the same time we have little understanding of what exactly the concept of individual empowerment means or how to capture it empirically. This study builds on prior observations…
A tale of two worlds: The interstate system and world society in social science textbooks, 1950–2011
There is a great and longstanding divide in visions of the international arena. Some assert that states are the most relevant actors in international politics, and others emphasise the importance of non-state actors as vehicles through which shared ideas and identities are enacted. Typically, cross-national scholarship adopts one of these positions and seeks to support the attendant theoretical claims; our approach is entirely different. We treat…
Student-Centeredness in Social Science Textbooks, 1970-2008: A Cross-National Study
A striking feature of modern societies is the extent to which individual persons are culturally validated as equal and empowered actors. The expansion of a wide range of rights in recent decades, given prominence in current discussions of world society, supports an expanded conception of the individual. We examine the extent to which broad global changes promoting human empowerment are associated with expanded ideas of the status and capacities o…
Standardizing chaos: A neo‐institutional analysis of the Inee Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies, Chronic Crises and Early Reconstruction
Violent conflict and humanitarian disasters such as floods, famines, or tsunamis, have existed since the start of human history. However, it is only recently that education in these emergency situations has emerged as a visible organizational field. We aim to use a unique theoretical application of sociological neo‐institutionalism to explain the rapid and recent rise of emergency education as a professional field, focusing specifically on the cr…
Human Rights in Social Science Textbooks: Cross-national Analyses, 1970–2008
In reaction to the disasters of the first half the 20th century and World War II, a dramatic world movement arose emphasizing the human rights of persons in global society. The contrast-celebrated in international treaties, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, and much cultural discourse-was with narrower world emphases on the rights of citizens of national states. Since the 1970s, this movement has increasingly emphasized the imp…
Human Rights in Social Science Textbooks: Cross-national Analyses, 1970–2008
In reaction to the disasters of the first half the 20th century and World War II, a dramatic world movement arose emphasizing the human rights of persons in global society. The contrast-celebrated in international treaties, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, and much cultural discourse-was with narrower world emphases on the rights of citizens of national states. Since the 1970s, this movement has increasingly emphasized the imp…
Standardizing chaos: A neo‐institutional analysis of the Inee Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies, Chronic Crises and Early Reconstruction
Violent conflict and humanitarian disasters such as floods, famines, or tsunamis, have existed since the start of human history. However, it is only recently that education in these emergency situations has emerged as a visible organizational field. We aim to use a unique theoretical application of sociological neo‐institutionalism to explain the rapid and recent rise of emergency education as a professional field, focusing specifically on the cr…
Global Determinants of Education Reform, 1960 to 2017
Since post-World War II and especially throughout the 1990s, the globalization of a liberal international order propelled a wave of education reforms around the world. However, recent challenges to the legitimacy of the liberal order may undercut the prevalence of education reform across countries. To reveal how global changes are influencing education, we draw on a newly constructed data set of 6,696 education reforms in 147 countries from 1960 …
Climate change discourse in U.S. history textbooks from California and Texas
Anthropogenic climate change is a scientific fact, but U.S. public discourse around the issue remains mired in controversy, including in education. Our study leverages natural language processing methods to give a precise look into the extent to which climate change-related topics are covered in 30 of the most widely used high school history textbooks in California and Texas. We find that history textbooks situate climate change-related topics wi…
Empowered individualism in world culture: Agency and equality in Canadian textbooks, 1871–2006
The sacred status of individuals is a central pillar of world culture in research on education and beyond. The intended socialisation of students is increasingly to become empowered individuals who respect human equality and diversity in a globally interconnected world. At the same time we have little understanding of what exactly the concept of individual empowerment means or how to capture it empirically. This study builds on prior observations…
Data as the new panacea: Trends in global education reforms, 1970–2018
This paper investigates changes in the promissory visions articulated in education reforms around the world. We use structural topic modeling to inductively analyze the content of 9,268 reforms from 215 countries and territories during the period 1970–2018 using the World Education Reform Database. Our findings reveal a decline in traditional management-focused reforms and a rise in reforms related to data and information. We also find an expandi…
Education reform in the twenty-first century: Declining emphases in international organisation reports, 1998–2018
The liberal and neoliberal world order is increasingly under attack. Global levels of democracy have been declining for over a decade, accompanied by rollbacks in some kinds of rights. We examine the implications of increasing criticisms of the (neo)-liberal era over time for educational reform discourse around the world by drawing on a unique primary dataset of 473 reports produced by international organisations between 1998 and 2018. Extending …
Advancing Global Social Change: Systems Approaches to the Role of Nonprofits in Climate Policy
The existential threat of climate change requires reimagining foundational aspects of society, including jobs, transportation, energy, the built environment, natural resources, health, and water and food supplies. We argue that to realize such broad scale change requires systems thinking. In this introduction to the special issue on Nonprofits and Climate Policy, we outline four systems-based views of global social change, organized by source of …
A tale of two worlds: The interstate system and world society in social science textbooks, 1950–2011
There is a great and longstanding divide in visions of the international arena. Some assert that states are the most relevant actors in international politics, and others emphasise the importance of non-state actors as vehicles through which shared ideas and identities are enacted. Typically, cross-national scholarship adopts one of these positions and seeks to support the attendant theoretical claims; our approach is entirely different. We treat…
Standardizing chaos: A neo‐institutional analysis of the Inee Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies, Chronic Crises and Early Reconstruction
Violent conflict and humanitarian disasters such as floods, famines, or tsunamis, have existed since the start of human history. However, it is only recently that education in these emergency situations has emerged as a visible organizational field. We aim to use a unique theoretical application of sociological neo‐institutionalism to explain the rapid and recent rise of emergency education as a professional field, focusing specifically on the cr…
Human Rights in Social Science Textbooks: Cross-national Analyses, 1970–2008
In reaction to the disasters of the first half the 20th century and World War II, a dramatic world movement arose emphasizing the human rights of persons in global society. The contrast-celebrated in international treaties, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, and much cultural discourse-was with narrower world emphases on the rights of citizens of national states. Since the 1970s, this movement has increasingly emphasized the imp…
Student-Centeredness in Social Science Textbooks, 1970-2008: A Cross-National Study
A striking feature of modern societies is the extent to which individual persons are culturally validated as equal and empowered actors. The expansion of a wide range of rights in recent decades, given prominence in current discussions of world society, supports an expanded conception of the individual. We examine the extent to which broad global changes promoting human empowerment are associated with expanded ideas of the status and capacities o…
Empowered individualism in world culture: Agency and equality in Canadian textbooks, 1871–2006
The sacred status of individuals is a central pillar of world culture in research on education and beyond. The intended socialisation of students is increasingly to become empowered individuals who respect human equality and diversity in a globally interconnected world. At the same time we have little understanding of what exactly the concept of individual empowerment means or how to capture it empirically. This study builds on prior observations…
A tale of two worlds: The interstate system and world society in social science textbooks, 1950–2011
There is a great and longstanding divide in visions of the international arena. Some assert that states are the most relevant actors in international politics, and others emphasise the importance of non-state actors as vehicles through which shared ideas and identities are enacted. Typically, cross-national scholarship adopts one of these positions and seeks to support the attendant theoretical claims; our approach is entirely different. We treat…
Education reform in the twenty-first century: Declining emphases in international organisation reports, 1998–2018
The liberal and neoliberal world order is increasingly under attack. Global levels of democracy have been declining for over a decade, accompanied by rollbacks in some kinds of rights. We examine the implications of increasing criticisms of the (neo)-liberal era over time for educational reform discourse around the world by drawing on a unique primary dataset of 473 reports produced by international organisations between 1998 and 2018. Extending …
Climate change discourse in U.S. history textbooks from California and Texas
Anthropogenic climate change is a scientific fact, but U.S. public discourse around the issue remains mired in controversy, including in education. Our study leverages natural language processing methods to give a precise look into the extent to which climate change-related topics are covered in 30 of the most widely used high school history textbooks in California and Texas. We find that history textbooks situate climate change-related topics wi…
Global Determinants of Education Reform, 1960 to 2017
Since post-World War II and especially throughout the 1990s, the globalization of a liberal international order propelled a wave of education reforms around the world. However, recent challenges to the legitimacy of the liberal order may undercut the prevalence of education reform across countries. To reveal how global changes are influencing education, we draw on a newly constructed data set of 6,696 education reforms in 147 countries from 1960 …
Reimagining Nonprofits: Sector Theory in the Twenty-First Century
What is the nonprofit sector and why does it exist? Collecting the writing of some of the most creative minds in the field of nonprofit studies, this book challenges our traditional understanding of the role and purpose of the nonprofit sector. It reflects on the ways in which new cultural and economic shifts bring existing assumptions into question and offers new conceptualizations of the nonprofit sector that will inform, provoke, and inspire. …
Advancing Global Social Change: Systems Approaches to the Role of Nonprofits in Climate Policy
The existential threat of climate change requires reimagining foundational aspects of society, including jobs, transportation, energy, the built environment, natural resources, health, and water and food supplies. We argue that to realize such broad scale change requires systems thinking. In this introduction to the special issue on Nonprofits and Climate Policy, we outline four systems-based views of global social change, organized by source of …
Data as the new panacea: Trends in global education reforms, 1970–2018
This paper investigates changes in the promissory visions articulated in education reforms around the world. We use structural topic modeling to inductively analyze the content of 9,268 reforms from 215 countries and territories during the period 1970–2018 using the World Education Reform Database. Our findings reveal a decline in traditional management-focused reforms and a rise in reforms related to data and information. We also find an expandi…
The missing link: Democracy, Education, and Carbon Emissions
Democracy is thought to play a key role in protecting the environment: in theory, free elections and civil rights allow citizens to hold political leaders accountable, which should then lead to stronger environmental protections. Despite its conceptual appeal, empirical evidence that democratic contexts produce stronger pro-environmental outcomes has been inconclusive. We focus on an overlooked factor – the average level of education in a country…
‘Reformism’ and the liberal culture: Global trends in education reform, 1970–2019
Amid rising backlash against democracy and economic globalisation, we examine how political and economic dimensions of liberalism shape patterns of education reform. We argue that ‘reformism’ intensifies when liberal culture is stronger at both national and global levels, reflecting the distinctive attention liberalism gives to both reform as a vehicle for social change and education as a pathway to progress. Drawing on a cross-national database …
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (6 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Higher education (4 works) · Law (4 works)