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In his paper Consequences of Corruption the author tries to find answers to the questions why corruption is considered to be harmful and whether it is possible to measure its consequences. The author manages to show that corruption has truly damaging effects, especially in the economic and social area and that some of the corruption effects (on investments, taxes, public expenditure, GDP growth, per capita GDP, school enrolment and life expectancy) can even be measured. Since there should not be any doubts any more on the damage corruption is causing, the author specifically deals with the trust of citizens towards their governments as one of the most important consequences of corruption. Governments' passivity in the fight against corruption might trigger serious responses from their citizens due to lack of trust, as it was the case in so-called "Arab Spring " and in some Balkan countries just recently. The author concludes that both, governments and their citizens, have to be aware of the real extent of corruption damage since this motivates citizens to add their part of efforts in fighting corruption and incite governments to really accept suppression of corruption as one of their top priorities.

We analyzed planning mechanisms and evaluated their performance in achieving legitimacy in infrastructure planning in Slovenia. Planning mechanisms were divided according to the concept of input, throughput and output legitimacy. We conducted a document analysis and interviews to assess their effectiveness in achieving legitimate decisions. Although the analyzed decision-making process declaratively promoted democratic principles, the mechanisms failed to satisfactorily enhance the legitimacy of decisions. The study revealed inadequate communication approaches, both in the decision-makers' relationship with the public and within the expert discourse. Accordingly, the study argues for more genuine communication with the public and within academia to address legitimacy challenges in increasingly conflictual decision-making processes. ; V prispevku smo analizirali postopek načrtovanja infrastrukturnega projekta v Sloveniji in ocenili uspešnost uporabljenih pristopov za doseganje legitimnosti odločitev. Pristopi k načrtovanju so bili razdeljeni v tri sklope, glede na uveljavljen koncept vhodne, postopkovne in izhodne legitimnosti. Legitimnost uporabljenih prostorsko-načrtovalskih pristopov smo ugotavljali s pomočjo kvalitativnih metod, natančneje z analizo dokumentov in intervjuji. Raziskava je pokazala, da je največji legitimacijski primanjkljaj na področju komunikacije, ne le med odločevalci in javnostjo temveč tudi med posameznimi strokami. Iz tega sledi, da bi morali za večjo družbeno sprejemljivost v bodočih, čedalje bolj konfliktnih postopkih odločanja, prostorski načrtovalci nameniti več pozornosti kakovosti komunikacije in sporazumevanju med akterji.