Decision making preferences indicated that the majority of participants (63%, n = 30) prefer to delegate decisions to healthcare professionals (API decision-making subscale, mean score 16.6 ± 4.3) and just under half of participants (46%, n = 22) prefer information/education to be provided (API information-seeking subscale, 33.5 ± 3.3).
Dr. McCoy said he preferred to delegate responsibility.
The absence of politicians in rationing/disinvestment arrangements is usually explained with blame-shifting arguments; they prefer to delegate "the burden of responsibility" to administrative agencies or professionals.
We prefer to delegate our democracy to the politicians and party we think will make the best go of it rather than tick boxes.
Others preferred to delegate studio supervision to experienced arrangers or engineers while dealing themselves with the logistics of pressing, distributing, and promoting their records and trying to collect money from sales.
The main result of the model is that governments prefer to delegate authority when the size of the time inconsistency problem is large relative to the uncertainty of the political consequences of the agent's policy choice, while they prefer to ask for advice if the opposite is true.
I draw on this formulation in chapter 4 to explain why the majority might rationally prefer to delegate authority to a citizens' assembly instead of an elected legislature and why they might rationally view citizens' assemblies with distrust, when they are organized and administered by elites.
Similarly, when Katie Pagen returns home to Rye from her job in Manhattan as a stockbroker, she is not inclined to shop and prepare food for her husband, Matthew, and their daughter, Cassidy, 1. "If you can outsource certain tasks," she said, "why not?" As for Barrie Kaplan, a stay-at-home mother who lives in Larchmont, grocery shopping has become a chore that she prefers to delegate.
If that sounds tedious, then perhaps you, like researchers at Murdoch University, would prefer to delegate the duty to a specially-trained computer.
If you prefer to delegate portfolio management, then search for a low-fee adviser who specializes in index funds and ETFs.
