Date of Award

1-1-2022

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Public Administration and Policy

Content Description

1 online resource (ix, 191 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Ellen V. Rubin

Committee Members

Gene A. Brewer, Lucy C. Sorensen, Hongseok Lee

Keywords

Bureaucratic whistleblowing, Civil service systems, Democratic bureaucracy, Human resource management, Public administration, Public organizations, Whistle blowing, Whistle blowers, Government accountability

Subject Categories

Ethics and Political Philosophy | Public Administration | Public Policy

Abstract

Public administration scholars have long believed that bureaucratic whistleblowers help make bureaucracies more democratic, effective, and accountable. With these firm convictions, the U.S. federal government has introduced a series of whistleblower protection systems to balance administrative power and external political accountability of public organizations. Building on this intellectual history of public administration scholarship on whistleblowing, this dissertation aims to: 1) understand bureaucratic whistleblowing at the theory-level, 2) examine the effects of whistleblower protection laws on bureaucrats at the individual-level, and 3) investigate how whistleblowing outcomes can reshape bureaucracies at the organizational-level.

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