I. Books
Frank, David John, and John W. Meyer. 2020. The University and the Global Knowledge Society. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Frank, David John, and Jay Gabler. 2006. Reconstructing the University: Worldwide Shifts in Academia in the 20th Century. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
https://www-sup.stanford.edu/books/title/?id=4960
II. Articles & Chapters
Lerch, Julia C., David John Frank, and Evan Schofer. 2024. “The Social Foundations of Academic Freedom: Heterogeneous Institutions in World Society, 1960-2022.” American Sociological Review 89 (1): 88-125.
Frank, David John, and John W. Meyer. 2023. “The University: Global Institution and National Organization.” Global Perspectives 4 (1): 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1525/gp.2023.87668.
Zapp, Mike, David John Frank, and Marcelo Marques. 2023. “Animals in World Society: Constitutional and Legislative Incorporation, 1972-2020.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 64 (2): 161-82.
Lerch, Julia C., Evan Schofer, David John Frank, Wesley Longhofer, Francisco O. Ramirez, and Christine Min Wotipka. 2022. “Women’s Participation and Challenges to the Liberal Script: A Global Perspective.” International Sociology 37 (3): 305-29.
Frank, David John, and John W. Meyer. 2021. “Expanded Education and Global Integration: Solidarity and Conflict.” On Education. Journal for Research and Debate 4 (10): 1-6.
Frank, David John, and Dana M. Moss. 2017. “Cross-National and Longitudinal Variations in the Criminal Regulation of Sex, 1965 to 2005.” Social Forces 95 (3): 941-69.
Longhofer, Wesley, Evan Schofer, Natasha Miric, and David John Frank. 2016. “NGOs, INGOs, and Environmental Policy Reform, 1970-2010.” Social Forces 94 (4): 1743-68.
Frank, David John, Ann Hironaka, and Evan Schofer. 2015. “World Society.” Pp. 175-82 in Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Governance and Politics, edited by P. H. Pattberg and F. Zelli. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Robinson, Karen Jeong, and David John Frank. 2014. “Higher Education: Institutional Effects.” Pp. 2868-70 in Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research, edited by A. C. Michalos. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.
Frank, David John, and Nolan Edward Phillips. 2013. “Sex Laws and Sexuality Rights in Comparative and Global Perspectives.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science 9 (November): 249-67.
Frank, David John. 2012. “Sex.” Pp. 1843-6 in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization, edited by G. Ritzer. New York, NY: Wiley-Blackwell.
Frank, David John. 2012. “Making Sense of LGBT Asylum Claims: Change and Variation in Institutional Contexts.” Journal of International Law and Politics 44 (Winter): 485-95.
Schofer, Evan, Ann Hironaka, David John Frank, and Wesley Longhofer. 2012. “Sociological Institutionalism and World Society.” Pp. 57-68 in The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology, edited by E. Amenta, K. Nash, and A. Scott. New York, NY: Wiley-Blackwell.
Frank, David John, Karen Jeong Robinson, and Jared Olesen. 2011. “The Global Expansion of Environmental Education in Universities.” Comparative Education Review 55 (November): 546-73.
Frank, David John, Bayliss J. Camp, and Steven A. Boutcher. 2010. “Worldwide Trends in the Criminal Regulation of Sex, 1945 to 2005.” American Sociological Review 75 (December): 867-93. 2011 Best Scholarly Article Award from the ASA’s Section on Global and Transnational Sociology.
Frank, David John, Steven A. Boutcher, and Bayliss Camp. 2009. “The Repeal of Sodomy Laws from a World-Society Perspective.” Pp. 123-41 in Queer Mobilizations: LGBT Activists Confront the Law, edited by S. Barclay, M. Bernstein, and A.-M. Marshall. New York, NY: New York University Press.
Frank, David John, Tara Hardinge, and Kassia Wosick-Correa. 2009. “The Global Dimensions of Rape-Law Reform: A Cross-National Study of Policy Outcomes.” American Sociological Review 74 (April): 272-90.
Frank, David John, Wesley Longhofer, and Evan Schofer. 2007. “World Society, NGOs, and Environmental Policy Reform in Asia.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 48 (August): 275-95.
Frank, David John, and John W. Meyer. 2007. “University Expansion and the Knowledge Society.” Theory and Society 36 (August): 287-311. (Translated and reprinted pp. 211-46 in La Educación en la Sociedad Mundial: Teoría Institucional y Agenda de Investigación de los Systemas Educativos Contemporáneos, edited by M. Pereyra. Barcelona, Spain: Octaedro, 2010.)
Meyer, John W., Francisco O. Ramirez, David John Frank, and Evan Schofer. 2007. “Higher Education as an Institution.” Pp. 187-221 in Sociology of Higher Education: Contributions and Their Contexts, edited by P. J. Gumport. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Frank, David John. 2007. “Ecology and Economy.” Pp. 1289-91 in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by G. Ritzer. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing (Updated and reprinted in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd edition, edited by G. Ritzer. New York, NY: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.)
Frank, David John, and John W. Meyer. 2007. “Worldwide Expansion and Change in the University.” Pp. 19-44 in Towards a Multiversity? Universities between Global Trends and National Traditions, edited by G. Krücken, A. Kosmützky, and M. Torka. Bielefeld, Germany: transcript-Verlag.
Gabler, Jay, and David John Frank. 2005. “The Natural Sciences in the University: Change and Variation over the 20th Century.” Sociology of Education 78 (July): 183-206.
Frank, David John. 2002. “The Origins Question: Building Institutions to Protect Nature.” Pp. 41-56 in Organizations, Policy and the Natural Environment: Institutional and Strategic Perspectives, edited by A. Hoffman and M. J. Ventresca. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Frank, David John, and John W. Meyer. 2002. “The Profusion of Individual Roles and Identities in the Post-War Period.” Sociological Theory 20 (March): 86-105. (Reprinted pp. 296-319 in World Society: The Writings of John W. Meyer, edited by G. Krücken and G. S. Drori. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2009.)
Frank, David John, Ann Hironaka, and Evan Schofer. 2000. “Environmentalism as a Global Institution” (reply). American Sociological Review 65 (February): 122-7. (Reprinted pp. 461-66 in New Developments in Environmental Sociology, edited by M. R. Redclift and G. Woodgate. Cheltenham, England: Edward Elgar, 2005.)
Frank, David John, Ann Hironaka, and Evan Schofer. 2000. “The Nation-State and the Natural Environment over the Twentieth Century.” American Sociological Review 65 (February): 96-116. (Reprinted pp. 435-55 in New Developments in Environmental Sociology, edited by M. R. Redclift and G. Woodgate. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2005.) (Reprinted pp. 493-514 in Globalization: Causes and Effects, edited by D. A. Deese. Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2012.)
Frank, David John, Suk-Ying Wong, John W. Meyer, and Francisco O. Ramirez. 2000. “What Counts as History: A Cross-National and Longitudinal Study of University Curricula.” Comparative Education Review 44 (February): 29-53.
Frank, David John. 1999. “The Social Bases of Environmental Treaty Ratification, 1900-1990.” Sociological Inquiry 69 (Fall): 523-50.
Frank, David John, and Elizabeth H. McEneaney. 1999. “The Individualization of Society and the Liberalization of State Policies on Same-Sex Sexual Relations, 1984-1995.” Social Forces 77 (March): 911-44.
Frank, David John, Ann Hironaka, John W. Meyer, Evan Schofer, and Nancy Brandon Tuma. 1999. “The Rationalization and Organization of Nature in World Culture.” Pp. 81-99 in Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations Since 1875, edited by J. Boli and G. M. Thomas. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Barrett, Deborah, and David John Frank. 1999. “Population Control for National Development: From World Discourse to National Policies.” Pp. 198-221 in Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations Since 1875, edited by J. Boli and G. M. Thomas. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Frank, David John. 1997. “Science, Nature, and the Globalization of the Environment, 1870-1990.” Social Forces 76 (December): 409-35. (Reprinted pp. 249-70 in The Environment and Society Reader, edited by R. S. Frey. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 2000.) (Reprinted in Nature: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences, edited by D. Inglis. London, England: Routledge, 2005.)
Meyer, John W., David John Frank, Ann Hironaka, Evan Schofer, and Nancy Brandon Tuma. 1997. “The Structuring of a World Environmental Regime, 1870-1990.” International Organization 51 (Autumn): 623-51. (Translated and reprinted pp. 235-75 in John W. Meyer: Weltkultur: Wie die westlichen Prinzipien die Welt durchdringen, edited by G. Krücken. Frankfurt, Germany: Suhrkamp, 2005.) (Reprinted pp. 222-50 in World Society: The Writings of John W. Meyer, edited by G. Krücken and G. S. Drori. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2009.)
Frank, David John, John W. Meyer, and David Miyahara. 1995. “The Individualist Polity and the Prevalence of Professionalized Psychology: A Cross-National Study.” American Sociological Review 60 (June): 360-77.
Frank, David John, Evan Schofer, and John Charles Torres. 1994. “Rethinking History: Change in the University Curriculum, 1910-90.” Sociology of Education 67 (October): 231-42.