Is Whistleblowing a Duty?

by Michele Bocchiola and Emanuela Ceva

Book Overview

Recent years have seen a number of whistleblowers risk their liberty to expose illegal and corrupt behaviour. Some have heralded their bravery; others see them as traitors. Can there be a moral duty to emulate their example and blow the whistle?

In this book, leading political philosophers Emanuela Ceva and Michele Bocchiola draw on well-known cases, such as those of Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, to probe the difference between permissible...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509529667
• ISBN13: 9781509529667
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.8" x 7.4"