Whistleblowing in the police organization – ambivalent evaluations in the discourse on whistleblowing
Project A06
Principal Investigator
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.