Weighted voting games are a natural and practically important class of simple coalitional games, in which each agent is assigned a numeric weight, and a coalition is deemed to be winning if the sum of weights of agents in that coalition meets some stated threshold. We study a natural generalisation of weighted voting games called Boolean Weighted Voting Games (BWVGs). BWVGs are intended to mode...

This study examined the impact of expanded function allied dental personnel on the productivity and efficiency of general dental practices. Detailed practice financial and clinical data were obtained from a convenience sample of 154 general dental practices in Colorado. In this state, expanded function dental assistants can provide a wide range of reversible dental services/procedures, and dent...

In this paper we reconsider the definition of counts-as relations in normative multiagent systems under the light of agent theory: counts-as relations do not directly provide an abstract interpretation of brute facts in terms of institutional facts. We argue that in many cases the inference of institutional facts from brute facts is the result of actions of agents acting on behalf of the normat...

We generalize standard delegation models to consider policymaking when both information and authority are dispersed among multiple actors. In our theory, the principal may delegate partial authority to a privately-informed agent while also reserving some authority for the principal’s use after observing the agent’s decision. Counterintuitively, the equilibrium amount of authority delegated to t...

In Canada, Indigenous activists and scholars critique municipalization as a threefold process that subverts authority to the state, then delegates forms of state peoples, concludes by asserting delegated satisfies terms self-determination. This article centers in two steps connect it how Canada divides power regarding foreign domestic affairs. The first examines history its evolution alongside ...

Global governance is transnationally administered. Today, global no longer dominated by just states or even international organizations. It an increasingly populated arena in which multiple actors have policy power and transnational administrative influence. Each impacts a nation-state’s assumed sovereignty. its administration may be decentralized, devolved, dispersed, and/or delegated away fro...