- Recent
- years
- have
- seen
- a
- number
- of
- whistleblowers
- risk
- their
- liberty
- to
- expose
- illegal
- and
- corrupt
- behaviour.
- Some
- have
- heralded
- their
- bravery;
- others
- see
- them
- as
- traitors.
- Can
- there
- be
- a
- moral
- duty
- to
- emulate
- their
- example
- and
- blow
- the
- whistle?In
- this
- book,
- leading
- political
- philosophers
- Emanuela
- Ceva
- and
- Michele
- Bocchiola
- draw
- on
- well-known
- cases,
- such
- as
- those
- of
- Edward
- Snowden
- and
- Chelsea
- Manning,
- to
- probe
- the
- difference
- between
- permissible
- and
- dutiful
- whistleblowing.
- They
- argue
- that,
- insofar
- as
- whistleblowing
- is
- understood
- as
- an
- individual
- act
- of
- dissent,
- it
- falls
- short
- of
- constituting
- a
- duty,
- although
- it
- can
- be
- praiseworthy.
- Whistleblowing
- should,
- they
- contend,
- be
- seen
- as
- an
- institutional
- duty,
- embedded
- within
- the
- organizational
- practices
- of
- public
- accountability.This
- concise
- book
- will
- be
- invaluable
- for
- students
- and
- scholars
- of
- applied
- political
- theory,
- and
- political
- and
- professional ethics.
