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.

翻译：威尼斯共和国是最成功的跨现代国家之一，凭借创新、商业智慧、殖民地剥削和法律稳定延续了千年。其成功部分可能归功于政府结构——一个由从相对有限的威尼斯贵族家族中选出的总督统治的共和国。本文分析了这些家族通过婚姻形成的社交网络结构，以及政府如何被少数最初成为贵族的家族所垄断。