¹ The passage referred to by Professor LaPalombara on p. 639 reads in part: “But it may be that the positions of these schools are in part being maintained by the development of continuing participation patterns that amount to an old boy network” (emphasis not in original).

² Professor LaPalombara writes of 14 program committee members, but the 1968 Annual Meeting Program identifies 15 members, in addition to LaPalombara. He says that he could only identify 4 of 14 members by terminal degree institutions, although he could have found this information on all of the others except one in the APSA Biographical Directory (1968 edition). The breakdown on the 16 members of the 1968 program committee (including LaPalombara) by institution of terminal degree is as follows: Harvard—7, Princeton—4, and one each for Chicago, Duke, Fletcher, Syracuse and Yale.

³ The version of our article reviewed by Professor LaPalombara contained only the first sentence of note 5 on p. 629, so he may not have known when writing his response that the rule had been traced as far back as 1958.

⁴ The words “As mentioned earlier” were inadvertently left in the final version of the article after the passage to which they referred was removed to save space.