(Reproducing this from Fission Talk)

Below I will add in my condensed chapter notes. Each chapter is available as its own paper on the book website 1 if you want to just pick and choose. Many of these chapters were presented as papers at the Internet Governance Forum in 2022.

Here is the TOC for your reference:

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    Chad’s Concluding Comments

    This collection of papers lays down some of the fundamentals of polycentric governance, and his heavily influenced by Ostrom’s work, which we read before, and the Bloomington School of Institutional Analysis, associated with the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University. Some of the papers are more speculative, trying to relate a specific domain to polycentricity, and others are a bit more practical.

    I included various quotes and points and =={some of my own commentary}== to help you make a decision whether a specific chapter is worth reading. My personal interest is in the principles of polycentric governance as we try and build our own movements for the management of open source protocols — and the open web itself — so I found the initial three chapters as well as Ch 11 the most useful for my needs. The focus of the book is on the Data Governance, so it is helpful to have solid examples in learning about the characteristics and principles of polycentric governance, but I was looking for something a bit more pragmatic. This is an emerging field of thought, so many of the papers were speculative… trying to theorize specific cases. Since many of the papers had the same foundational citations, I have gathered them below to explore as next steps.

    Hopefully this was helpful to someone else out there.

    Selected resources for follow up

    It’s Ordered Chaos: What Really Makes Polycentrism Work Maria Koinova, Maryam Zarnegar Deloffre, Frank Gadinger, Zeynep Sahin Mencutek, Jan Aart Scholte, Jens Steffek International Studies Review, Volume 23, Issue 4, December 2021, Pages 1988–2018, 19 October 2021 https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viab030

    The metagovernance of internet governance Niels ten Oever Power and Authority in Internet Governance (pp.56-75) January 2021 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003008309-5/metagovernance-internet-governance-niels-ten-oever

    Beyond Institutionalism: Toward a Transformed Global Governance Theory. Scholte, Jan Aart. International Theory, Volume 13, Issue 1, March 2021, pp. 179 - 191 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1752971920000421

    Polycentrism: How Governing Works Today Gadinger, Frank, and Jan Aart Scholte (eds), Oxford, 2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 22 June 2023), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192866837.001.0001