The present text is a revised version of my dissertation, which was accepted in May of this year by the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld. The study's content is based on research conducted as part of the project "Regulatory Innovation through Collective Intelligence?", funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, at the Institute for World Society at the University of Bielefeld. The completion of this work would not have been possible without the help and support of numerous colleagues and various institutions. I am therefore deeply grateful: to my two reviewers, Helmut Willke and Veronika Tacke, for their constructive and helpful guidance throughout the doctoral project; to Sven Kette, Torsten Strulik, Alexandra Hessling, and many other colleagues at the faculty.