GOODPOL seeks to establish the criteria for a good policy, in a way that satisfies both democratic desiderata, the requirement that the policy contribute to what is actually right, and that also does not conflict with feasibility constraints. The project has combined philosophers, social scientists and legal scholars, who have studied aspects of this overall topic from different perspectives, and who have share and discussed each other’s ideas in a number of seminars and workshops throughout the year. The project focused in particular on three sub-questions:
1. Disagreement. How can we identify good policy, when we disagree in moral and political questions?
2. Democracy. What if democracy provides us with poorer policies? (And expert rule provides us with better policies?)
3. From theory to practice. How can the quality of policies be measured? How can we identify good policies that is at the same time feasible and effective?