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A Probe into the Whistle-Blowers Protection System Hsiao Wu-tung & Huang Sheng-Jen

Right now the Whistle-Blowers Protection System has been increasingly used by the U.S. government as an important tool to prevent people on both public and private sectors from doing things that are corrupt, illegal or harmful to national benefits. A well-engineered Whistle-Blowers Protection System will offer any crusading members of an organization a formal and effective route to expose any scams they discovered instead of just reporting the same to the press in an anonymous way. This will not only reduce the social costs arising from blowing the whistle, but also help the government agencies to cope with their crisis immediately so that the reputation for the government may not be greatly tarnished.
Orchestrating a full-fledged and trustworthy Whistle-Blowers Protection System by resorting to the U.S. efforts at enacting bills for protecting whistle-blowers will help prevent the government agencies from becoming corrupt and serve the purpose of making officials with probity do their jobs honestly while resuming people's faith in the government to boost its credibility for proper governance.


Keywords:whistle-blower, public service motivation, whistle-blowers protection system, the whistleblower protection act of 1989, office of special counsel