For example, they fill a specified number of positions on boards of directors with corporate outsiders. Organizations require agents to divest their stockholdings or place them in blind trusts, to develop rules of celibacy or, in the case of Plato's Guardians, prohibitions against family membership (that otherwise creates powerful intimate bonds that compromise norms of disinterestedness).

XREF: Connects to principal-agent theory and institutional design around impartiality — resonates with broader literature on conflicts of interest.

Shapiro, Susan P., The Social Control of Imper…, loc. 78