Whistleblowing in the police organization – ambivalent evaluations in the discourse on whistleblowing
Profile
- Principal Investigators
- Prof. Dr. Ralf Kölbel
- Researchers
- Riccarda Gattinger; Maresa Dudek
- Project Description
- Attention directed towards internal abuses of power within organisations by members within them, and the resulting external reports of these abuses (whistleblowing), often engender both approval and criticism by society. A major reason for this is the tension between conflicting demands for loyalty and transparency, which inevitably results in disappointment when expectations are not met in cases of non-/disclosure. The project reconstructs and analyses this ambivalence using the German police force as an example, relying primarily on a discourse-analytical approach and including various documents from individuals within the force and organisations closely connected to it.
- Phase 1
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