Modular Politics

Governance in online communities is an increasingly high-stakes challenge, and yet many basic features of offline governance legacies-juries, political parties, term limits, formal debates, to name a few-are not the feature-sets software most community platforms use. Drawing on paradigm Institutional Analysis Development, this paper proposes strategy for addressing lapse by specifying generalizable called Modular Politics. Whereas classical typologies tend present choice among wholesale ideologies, such as democracy or oligarchy, Politics would enable platform operators their users build bottom-up processes from computational components that are modular composable, highly versatile expressiveness, portable one context another, interoperable across platforms. This kind approach could implement pre-digital systems well accelerate innovation uniquely digital techniques. As diverse share connect data, occur through ubiquitous network layer. To end, development open standard networked governance.