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...world that reestablishes a clear-cut moral order and that, best of all, allows him to have multiple wives. In an occurrence that could only be described as a freak accident of timing, Submission was published on the same day as the Charlie Hebdo attack, with that magazine’s current issue sporting Michel Houellebecq on the cover. The novel went on to become a bestseller...

...world over the past 50 years, talks of institutions in terms of ‘sets of rules’ (see Box 1). Box 1 Institutions as sets of rules and norms Institutions are sets of ‘rules that structure social interactions in particular ways’, based on knowledge ‘shared by members of the relevant community or society’ (Knight, 1992, p. 2). Compliance to those rules is enforced...