David Knoke is Chairman, Department of Sociology. University of Minnesota, and was Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, Christian-Albrechts-Universitat, Kiel (1989). Dr. Knoke was co-founder and acting chair of the American Sociological Association's Section on Political Sociology, served as its newsletter co-editor, and is on the editorial board of "Administrative Science Quarterly. "In addition to numerous journal articles, his most recent books include "Organized for Action "(with J.R. Wood, 1981), "Network Analysis "(with J.H. Kuklinski, 1982), "The Organizational State (with "E.G. Laumann,