Network Collective Action: Agent-Based Models of Pandemics, Riots, Social Movements, Insurrections and Insurgencies (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031861987)

David Knoke is a professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota, where he
teaches courses in social networks, organizations, healthcare systems, terrorism, social
science fiction, and statistics. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in
1972 and was professor of sociology at Indiana University from 1972 to 1985. Knoke
was a Fulbright research scholar at Kiel University in Germany (1989) and a fellow at
the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1992). In 1996-99 he was
named a University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Scholar of the College. In 2008,
he received the University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts' Arthur "Red" Motley
Exemplary Teaching Award. With various colleagues, David Knoke received several
National Science Foundation research grants and published the results in research
monographs on political, organizational, and social network behavior. Some of these
books are The Organizational State, Organizing for Collective Action, Political Networks,
Organizations in America, Comparing Policy Networks, Changing Organizations, Social Network Analysis, Economic Networks, and Multimodal Political Networks. His current research investigates diverse social networks, including intra- and interorganizational, healthcare, economic, financial, terrorist and counterterror networks.