What is a good doge? Analyzing the patrician social network of the Republic of Venice
Abstract
The Venetian republic was one of the most successful trans-modern states, surviving for a millennium through innovation, commercial cunning, exploitation of colonies and legal stability. Part of the success might be due to its government structure, a republic ruled by a doge chosen among a relatively limited set of Venetian patrician families. In this paper we analyze the structure of the social network they formed through marriage, and how government was monopolized by a relatively small set of families, the ones that became patrician first.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- September 2022
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2209.07334
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2209.07334
- Bibcode:
- 2022arXiv220907334M
- Keywords:
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- Computer Science - Social and Information Networks;
- Computer Science - Computers and Society