Public procurement refers to the purchase by public sector entities—such as government
departments or local authorities—of Services, Goods, or Works. It accounts for a significant …

We investigated daily COVID-19 cases and deaths in the 337 lower tier local authority
regions in England and Wales to better understand how the disease propagated over a 15 …

Contemporary literature on the dynamics of economic activities in growing cities has mainly
focused on time frames of a few years or decades. Using a new geohistorical database …

We investigate socio-economic urban scaling behavior of municipalities in Denmark, the
Netherlands, and in particular in Germany. Our interest is twofold. First we investigate …

The increasing cost of electoral campaigns raises the need for effective campaign planning
and a precise understanding of the return of such investment. Interestingly, despite the …

Studies investigating opinion dynamics in elections have mainly focused on votes cast for
candidates. However, voter opinions can also be expressed through blank and null votes …

Scaling law behaviors have been emerging from many large-scale social phenomena,
particularly from the different stages of an electoral process. We analyze here, the results …

Concepts of statistical mechanics as well as other typical tools of physics have been largely
used in the analysis of several aspects of social systems, for instance, in politics. In this work …

The voter's opinion is not expressed exclusively in the vote for one of the candidates, it may
be implicit among abstentions or invalid votes, which are blank and null votes. In this study …

Scaling properties of language are a useful tool for understanding generative processes in
texts. We investigate the scaling relations in citywise Twitter corpora coming from the …