Reproduction of Silence in a Major Corruption Scandal

Ian Foxley is Founder of Parrhesia, a research organisation focused on providing policymakers with evidence for the reform of legislation on whistleblower protection. He is a veteran with 24 years’ service in the British Army, in which he commanded a divisional communications regiment in Bosnia-Herzegovina. He subsequently became Programme Director for a £2 billion defence procurement project in which he discovered corrupt payments to secret subcontractors.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Background to the case study.- Chapter 3. The theory and practice of whistleblowing.- Chapter 4. Approach.- Chapter 5. Emotional drivers.- Chapter 6.    Organisational factors.- Chapter 7. Cultural, social, strategic, political, and economic influences. Chapter 8. Discussion and conclusion.