A theory of policymaking in the case of rights exercised about actions

We analyze policymaking in the case of rights exercised about actions specifically, rights to perform actions and also rights exercised by employers in firms to choose who they employ to perform any action on their behalf. Predictions are made on the basis of a new concept of our own design: the concept of relations generated by actions. Relations are, basically, events of a social nature whose objects are actions. We model relations as games. An entire chapter of the dissertation is devoted to the task of developing games to model relations.We predict different processes should be used to formulate rights to perform actions and employers' rights to choose who they employ. Rights to perform different actions should be formulated separately and independently from one another. Rights exercised by different employers to choose who they employ should, rather, be formulated all at once.State regulation and the firm are also extensively considered in the dissertation. About state regulation, we demonstrate that regulating the way and the intensity any action is performed is not the same. On the basis of that result, we predict that if two parties disagree concerning whether performing any action should be allowed or not, these two parties should also disagree concerning what, between the way and the intensity that action is peformed, should be regulated about it. About the firm, we develop a new model of it based on the concept of relations generated by actions. That model of the firm sheds light on the conflicting aspect of employer-employee relations as well as on the political aspect of such conflicts.The main result we demonstrate about relations by modeling them as games is that controversies of a political nature can occur in them. The issue of any political controversy taking place in a relation can only be the formulation of a right someone involved in the relation can exercise about the action generating it. We use that result as a stepping stone to consider policymaking in the case of rights exercised about actions from the standpoint of a welfare state.