The Future of Whistleblowing?
摘要
The chapter concludes the book by inquiring into the status and future of whistleblowing. In doing so, it summarizes and draws together insights from the previous chapters. It argues that whistleblowers are unique actors in our democracies because they possess a kind of negative expert knowledge that citizens and lawmakers depend on, and that other actors cannot provide in the same way. The chapter claims that we are likely to see a growth in whistleblowing in the coming years. The expectation is based on three observations: That whistleblowing is by now a visible, accepted form of action in democracies, that production is becoming increasingly complex and opaque for outsiders, and that expanding legal whistleblower protection lowers the cost of engaging in this form of action.