Who Counts as a Whistleblower? Legal and Academic Debates in France and the United States

Mahaut Fanchini ()
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Mahaut Fanchini: IRG - Institut de Recherche en Gestion - UPEM - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée - UPEC UP12 - Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12, ESTIA - ESTIA - Institute of technology

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Abstract: Who gets to decide who can be labeled as a whistleblower and under which conditions? Recent scholarship has demonstrated that not everyone is granted the status of "valid truth-teller" as gender, race, class, and other dimensions are likely to distinguish whistleblowers. As Lida Maxwell writes concerning Chelsea Manning, "someone who, because she appears queer and improperly gendered, […] cannot be heard as a meaningful, proper public speaker" (Maxwell, 2019). This aspect is a key in whistleblowing accounts, as judicial protection can be granted to those who fit the regulator's definition. As we already know, whistleblowing is a relational process (Contu, Journal of Management Inquiry 393–406, 2014), and those who listen to whistleblowers take an important part in deciding who and what is meaningful and worth listening to.

Keywords: Whistle Blowing; Whistle blower (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-08-01
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Published in Whistleblowing Policy and Practice, Volume II, II, Springer Nature Switzerland, pp.25-38, 2025, 978-3-031-93169-7. ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-93170-3_3⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-93170-3_3

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