Chemical Organizations in a Toy Model of the Political System

Since sociology is seeking mechanisms for explaining social phenomena, we discuss in this paper, whether and how the metaphor of a chemical reaction network can be employed as a formal mechanism to describe social and political systems. A reaction network is a quite general concept, which allows to model a variety of dynamical systems. Further more, a set of powerful tools can infer potential dynamical properties from the networks structure. Using a toy model of the political system inspired by Luhmann, we demonstrate how chemical organization theory can be applied and can give insight into the structure and dynamics of the resulting model. Chemical organization theory allows identifying an overlapping hierarchy of important sub-systems in these networks.