20.500.12556/DKUM-88199 Self-organization in Slovenian public spending Private businesses are often entrusted with public contracts, wherein public money is allocated to a private company. This process raises concerns about transparency, even in the most developed democracies. But are there any regularities guiding this process? Do all private companies benefit equally from the state budgets? Here, we tackle these questions focusing on the case of Slovenia, which keeps excellent records of this kind of public spending. We examine a dataset detailing every transfer of public money to the private sector from January 2003 to May 2020. During this time, Slovenia has conducted business with no less than 248 989 private companies. We find that the cumulative distribution of money received per company can be reasonably well explained by a power-law or lognormal fit. We also show evidence for the first-mover advantage, and determine that companies receive new funding in a way that is roughly linear over time. These results indicate that, despite all human factors involved, Slovenian public spending is at least to some extent regulated by emergent self-organizing principles. complex system self-organization Slovenia public funds kompleksni sistem samo-organizacija Slovenija javna sredstva true true true The Royal Society Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2024-04-11 03:56:16 2024-09-11 09:43:37 2024-09-12 03:30:20 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2023 0 0 13 str. iss. 8, [article no.] 221279 Vol. 10 2023 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 2023-10-21 2023-07-10 2023-08-02 53 162178051 10.1098/rsos.221279 2054-5703 RAZ_Joksimovic_Jelena_2023.pdf RAZ_Joksimovic_Jelena_2023.pdf 1 82B411AFA351EB541EF2B62E5F4B3817 2115c8f1d4d8976823e79a5b4857867fe6f8d91c8b94354cf1e1a453d7b7181a 8113f633-6f73-11ef-b637-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=184837 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.221279 0 0a62ab79-700f-11ef-bcb8-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=184912 Fakulteta za naravoslovje in matematiko 0 0 0