Staffan I. Lindberg, Director, V-Dem Institute, Dept. of Political Science, Univ. of GothenburgPrincipal Investigator, Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem), Wallenberg Academy Fellow, ERC Consolidator Grant

Have you used prenatal testing to determine if the fetus you or your partner is carrying has Down’s syndrome? If the answer is yes, you are not alone. The interest in genetic screening for Down’s synd

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 27: 75-86. doi.org/10.1017/S096318011700041X Abstract This article addresses the prioritization questions that arise when people attempt to institutionalize reaso

Politics & Policy Abstract Although the literature widely discusses the role of academics as experts in public policy making, empirical case studies on ethical problems related to the production and

Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, May 2015. DOI 10.1007/s11019-015-9649-2 Disease prioritarianism is a principle that is often implicitly or explicitly employed in the realm of healthcare prioritiz

Setting priorities during pandemics

This projects aims to present a framework for making sound decisions in times of pandemics - when experience and time is scarce, and uncertainties are many. 

AbstractThe recent increase of democratic declines around the world -- what Lührmann and Lindberg(2019) have dubbed "third wave of autocratization'' -- has sparked a new generation of studies on the t

Oxford University Press, 648 p.  The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethicspresents up-to-date theoretical analyses of various problems associated with the moral standing of future people and animals in c