Institute of Whistleblower Protection in G20 Countries: Problems and Perspectives of Implementation

This work is devoted to the study of the specificity of the functioning of the institution of whistleblower protection about corruption in G20 countries. The study found that the G20 countries have varying degrees of institutionalization of the whistleblower protection about corruption. The analysis of regulatory legal acts allowed to allocate three clusters on the degree of whistleblower protection in G20 countries: countries with high, medium and low protection of whistleblowers about corruption. In a cluster with a low degree of protection by public policy approach for stakeholder analysis, the hypothesis was confirmed: the low interest of stakeholders who have regulatory authority in changing the status quo of the institute of the whistleblower protection, leads to a low degree of legislative protection for persons reporting corruption offenses, as well as the lack of this institution’s reform. The Gardner’s matrix, the Eden’s and Ackermann’s matrix allowed to determine similar cases by positioning of the stakeholders in countries with a low degree of whistleblower protection, and to highlight similar trends in the development of the institute of the protection persons who report corruption.