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by Joerg Blumtritt

'Code is Law' is the catch phrase of Lawrence Lessig famous bestseller on the future of democracy. And from the beginning of the Internet revolution, there has been the discussion, wether our new forms of media and communication would lead to another revolution, too: a political one. Many of the media and platforms that rose over last decade show aspects of communal or even social systems - and hence might be called Social Media with good cause. Thus it does not come as a surprise that we start to see the development of the com- munication platforms that are genuinly ment to support and at the same time to experiment with new forms of political participation, like Proxy-Voting or Liquid Democracy, which had been hardly conceivable without the infrastructure of the Web. Since these new forms of presenting, debating, and voting for policies have been occuring just recently, we can expect that many other va- rieties will appear, new concepts to translate the internet paradigm into social decision making. But how do these new forms of voting work? Are they really mapping the volonté generale into decisions, and if so, in a sustainable, stable, continuous way? And how to evaluate on system compared to another?

Let's take Lessig by the word. Our goal is to use mathematical formalization to dene and measure perfomance indicators of political systems, to contribute to answering these questions.