Schulz (2022) shows how weak kin networks contributed to the rise of participatory institutions and how the medieval Catholic Church marriage regulations prohibitions contributed to the process by destroying European clan-based kin networks. Three pieces of evidence construct the argument....

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: The Embedded Politics of Institutional Change in Postcommunism -- 2. Institutional Experiments and the Emergence of Industrial Networks in Communist Czechoslovakia -- 3. State Designs for Defining...