Sousa, Luís de2018-12-172018-12-172018Sousa, L. de (2018). Open government and the use of ict to reduce corruption risks. In A. Delicado, N. Domingos and L. de Sousa (Eds.), Changing Societies: Legacies and Challenges. Vol. iii. The Diverse Worlds of Sustainability, pp. 179-202. Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais978-972-671-505-4.http://hdl.handle.net/10451/35912Over the past three decades, advanced industrial countries have witnessed a decline of citizens’ confidence in the core public (Miller 1974; Niemi et al. 1989; Dalton 1999; Nye 1997; Norris 1999; Newton 1999; Newton 2006) and a wide range of private institutions (Lipset and Schneider 1983; Dogan 1994; Listhaug and Wiberg 1995; Dalton 1996). This erosion of confidence in the major institutions of society has been explained as a result of both contextual government ineffectiveness and poor macroeconomic outcomes (Lewis-Beck 1988; Norpoth 1996; Newton 2006; Polavieja 2013; Magalhães 2014, 2016; Quaranta and Martini 2017; Teixeira et al. 2014) and as a consequence of deterioration in the quality of government performance (Aarts and Thomassen 2008; Holmberg and Rothstein 2012; Rothstein 2009, 2011; Rothstein and Teorell 2008; Wagner et al. 2009).engOpen governmentSustainabilitybook part10.31447/ics9789726715054.07