ABSTRACT

This concluding chapter is intended to pose, more directly, the larger questions of institutional design that have served as subtexts for previous chapters. There we have confronted the conceptual issues arising in various particular institutions or policy areas, and investigated what neutrality involves in various particular cases. But we still may be left wondering how best to arrange our social and political institutions, more broadly, to attain it. For example, should neutrality be pursued by everyone? Or should there be a division of labour, either amongst moral agents or social institutions, so that neutrality is the particular business of only some? Can neutrality emerge from a system of checks and balances? And if so, how?