20.500.12556/DKUM-88640 Universality of political corruption networks Corruption crimes demand highly coordinated actions among criminal agents to succeed. But research dedicated to corruption networks is still in its infancy and indeed little is known about the properties of these networks. Here we present a comprehensive investigation of corruption networks related to political scandals in Spain and Brazil over nearly three decades. We show that corruption networks of both countries share universal structural and dynamical properties, including similar degree distributions, clustering and assortativity coefficients, modular structure, and a growth process that is marked by the coalescence of network components due to a few recidivist criminals. We propose a simple model that not only reproduces these empirical properties but reveals also that corruption networks operate near a critical recidivism rate below which the network is entirely fragmented and above which it is overly connected. Our research thus indicates that actions focused on decreasing corruption recidivism may substantially mitigate this type of organized crime. corruption network politics universality social physics korupcija omrežje politika univerzalnost fizika družbe true false true Nature Publishing Group Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Znanstveno delo 2024-05-17 03:20:15 2024-07-15 13:42:32 2024-07-16 03:57:21 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2022 0 0 Str. 1-10 Št. članka 6858 Letn. 12 2022 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 2022-01-04 2022-04-11 2022-04-27 53 106373123 10.1038/s41598-022-10909-2 2045-2322 Martins-2022-Universality_of_political_corrupt.pdf Martins-2022-Universality_of_political_corrupt.pdf 1 60B9B43A660DB67CD18C9DBB4B0D8248 130ccf1840b64ccda6f9e627d421616d6301d9f66e1ff593057d48ea7291156d 2f056375-429f-11ef-99b3-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=181486 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10909-2 0 3dfb3f42-429f-11ef-99b3-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=181488 Fakulteta za naravoslovje in matematiko 0 0 0