Zald wrote more than 60 articles in all and wrote and edited nearly two dozen books; as of May 2012 his CV listed 21 Books and Monographs, 67 Empirical Studies and Theoretical Essays, 44 "Review Articles and Commentaries" and 5 "Pamphlets and Reports". His works included including "Social Movements in an Organizational Society: Collected Essays" (with John McCarthy) (1987), "Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements" (with Doug McAdam and John McCarthy) (1996), and "Social Movements and the Transformation of American Health Care" (with Jane Banaszak-Holl and Sandra Levitsky) (2010).