Stata dataset of 2,118 Lobbying Disclosure Act reports from 574 organizations active on the 2014 Farm Bill. Data originally collected and coded by the Center for Responsive Politics. Includes name of organization, dollar amount of reported expenses, number of lobbyists, lobbyists with previous government experiences (revolving door), description of issue, sector and industry of organization, and topic codes (created by author).The Excel file includes lobbying scores for each organization in the data set (n=574). Scores are based on a Principal Components Analysis of resources devoted to lobbying. There are separate worksheets for the overall ranking and by topic.The associated Stata do-file includes commands to replicate the ranking of organizations (overall and by topic).

Analysis of ‘Lobbyist Data - Lobbyists’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/f4a6a85c-7253-4dee-99d9-f8c4bec02325 on 13 February 2022.

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Lobbyists registered with the Chicago Board of Ethics since 2012. Due to requirements for lobbyists to re-register and the importance of showing year for most lobbying-related data, the same lobbyist often will have multiple records. See http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/ethics/provdrs/lobby.html for more information on the Board of Ethics' role in regulating and reporting on lobbying in Chicago.

--- Original source retains full ownership of the source dataset ---

Our lobbying data is collected and aggregated from the U.S. Senate Office of Public Records from 1999-present and is updated on a regular basis. We utilize advanced data science techniques to ensure accurate data points are collected and ingested, match similar entities across time, and tickerize publicly traded companies that lobby.

Our comprehensive and advanced lobbying data API is completed with all the information you need, with more than 1.6 million lobbying contracts ready-for-analysis. We include detailed information on all aspects of federal lobbying, including the following fascinating attributes, among much more:

1. Clients: The publicly traded company, privately owned company, interest group, NGO, or state or local government that employs or retains a lobbyist or lobbying firm.

2. Registrants (Lobbying Firms): Either the name of the lobbying firm hired by the client, or the name of the client if the client employs in-house lobbyists.

3. Lobbyists: The names and past government work experience of the individual lobbyists working on a lobbying contract.

4. General Issues: The general issues for which clients lobby on (ex: ENV - Environment, TOB - Tobacco, FAM - Family Issues/Abortion).

5. Specific Issues: A long text description of the exact bills and specific issues for which clients lobby on.

6. Bills Lobbied On: A parsed version of Specific Issues that catches specific HR, PL, and ACTS lobbied on (ex: H.R. 2347, S. 1117, Tax Cuts and Jobs Act).

7. Agencies Lobbied: The names of one or more of 250+ government agencies lobbied on in the contract (ex: White House, FDA, DOD).

8. Foreign Entities: The names and origin countries of entities affiliated with the client (ex: BNP Paribas: France).

Using our intelligently designed & curated data quality and easy-to-understand API documentation, researchers can easily query for data by company, organization, lobbying firm, or ticker symbol. Data is returned in standard JSON format and is ready-for-analysis.

Gain access to our highly unique and actionable U.S. lobbying data API. Further information on LobbyingData.com and our alternative datasets and database can be found on our website, or by contacting us through Datarade.

Analysis of ‘Lobbyist Data - Employers’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/02148ba5-6ddd-47e0-9d91-7d803f3186d7 on 13 February 2022.

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Employers of registered lobbyists as reported in the Lobbyist Statement of Registration. Due to requirements for lobbyists to re-register, the importance of showing year for most lobbying-related data, and some employers being reported by multiple lobbyists, the same employer often will have multiple records See http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/ethics/provdrs/lobby.html for more information on the Board of Ethics' role in regulating and reporting on lobbying in Chicago.

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Our lobbyist dataset drills-down on more than 78,000 of the lobbyists throughout history (1999-present), offering detailed information on their lobbying firm work histories and previous government positions.

Our lobbying data is collected and aggregated from the U.S. Senate Office of Public Records from 1999-present and is updated on a regular basis. We utilize advanced data science techniques to ensure accurate data points are collected and ingested, match similar entities across time, and tickerize publicly traded companies that lobby.

Our comprehensive and advanced lobbying database is completed with all the information you need, with more than 1.6 million lobbying contracts ready-for-analysis. We include detailed information on all aspects of federal lobbying, including the following fascinating attributes, among much more:

1. Clients: The publicly traded company, privately owned company, interest group, NGO, or state or local government that employs or retains a lobbyist or lobbying firm.

2. Registrants (Lobbying Firms): Either the name of the lobbying firm hired by the client, or the name of the client if the client employs in-house lobbyists.

3. Lobbyists: The names and past government work experience of the individual lobbyists working on a lobbying contract.

4. General Issues: The general issues for which clients lobby on (ex: ENV - Environment, TOB - Tobacco, FAM - Family Issues/Abortion).

5. Specific Issues: A long text description of the exact bills and specific issues for which clients lobby on.

6. Bills Lobbied On: A parsed version of Specific Issues that catches specific HR, PL, and ACTS lobbied on (ex: H.R. 2347, S. 1117, Tax Cuts and Jobs Act).

7. Agencies Lobbied: The names of one or more of 250+ government agencies lobbied on in the contract (ex: White House, FDA, DOD).

8. Foreign Entities: The names and origin countries of entities affiliated with the client (ex: BNP Paribas: France).

Using our intelligently designed & curated data quality, researchers can easily perform analysis by company, lobbyist, lobbying firm, government agency, or issue. We earnestly work with our customers to deliver this database in the methods or formats of their choosing, from: CSV, JSON, DTA, PKL, to other formats and methods. We're flexible.

Gain access to our highly unique and actionable U.S. lobbying database. Further information on LobbyingData.com and our alternative datasets and database can be found on our website, or by contacting us through Datarade.

Our lobbying firm dataset drills-down on more than 13,000 lobbying firms and other entities that have used in-house lobbyists from 1999-present.

Our lobbying data is collected and aggregated from the U.S. Senate Office of Public Records from 1999-present and is updated on a regular basis. We utilize advanced data science techniques to ensure accurate data points are collected and ingested, match similar entities across time, and tickerize publicly traded companies that lobby.

Our comprehensive and advanced lobbying database is completed with all the information you need, with more than 1.6 million lobbying contracts ready-for-analysis. We include detailed information on all aspects of federal lobbying, including the following fascinating attributes, among much more:

1. Clients: The publicly traded company, privately owned company, interest group, NGO, or state or local government that employs or retains a lobbyist or lobbying firm.

2. Registrants (Lobbying Firms): Either the name of the lobbying firm hired by the client, or the name of the client if the client employs in-house lobbyists.

3. Lobbyists: The names and past government work experience of the individual lobbyists working on a lobbying contract.

4. General Issues: The general issues for which clients lobby on (ex: ENV - Environment, TOB - Tobacco, FAM - Family Issues/Abortion).

5. Specific Issues: A long text description of the exact bills and specific issues for which clients lobby on.

6. Bills Lobbied On: A parsed version of Specific Issues that catches specific HR, PL, and ACTS lobbied on (ex: H.R. 2347, S. 1117, Tax Cuts and Jobs Act).

7. Agencies Lobbied: The names of one or more of 250+ government agencies lobbied on in the contract (ex: White House, FDA, DOD).

8. Foreign Entities: The names and origin countries of entities affiliated with the client (ex: BNP Paribas: France).

Using our intelligently designed & curated data quality, researchers can easily perform analysis by company, lobbyist, lobbying firm, government agency, or issue. We earnestly work with our customers to deliver this database in the methods or formats of their choosing, from: CSV, JSON, DTA, PKL, to other formats and methods. We're flexible.

Gain access to our highly unique and actionable U.S. lobbying database. Further information on LobbyingData.com and our alternative datasets and database can be found on our website, or by contacting us through Datarade.

Analysis of ‘Lobbyist Data - Lobbyist Compensation Report (Deprecated October 2015)’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/524d76f1-f565-468c-9e56-95c86857a92c on 26 January 2022.

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OUTDATED. See similar current data at https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/dw2f-w78u --The lobbyist compensation report is part of the Lobbyist Activity Report, a notarized disclosure that must be filed twice each year (January 20th and July 20th). Lobbyists must report compensation any lobbying-related compensation received during each reporting period from a particular client, rounded to the nearest $1,000 on Form C Part 3 Section G (http://bit.ly/q2lRTh). Lobbyist activity reports are submitted to the Board of Ethics in paper form and are available in their entirety in the Board's offices. The Board has, since 2000, compiled and posted static lists of all lobbyists and their clients online. Previous policy did not require the Board of Ethics to prioritize the reporting of all data available from paper filings.
Data Owner: Board of Ethics [http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/ethics.html] / Time Period: January 1, 2011 to present / Frequency: Data is updated daily / Related Applications: http://bit.ly/FOctNY

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Analysis of ‘Lobbyist Data - Expenditures - Small’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/8a83ecc6-71f0-430d-9886-6eb712c58a4b on 13 February 2022.

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Expenditures under $250 per transaction, summarized per three-month reporting period. Larger expenditures are itemized in https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/xika-473c. See http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/ethics/provdrs/lobby.html for more information on the Board of Ethics' role in regulating and reporting on lobbying in Chicago.

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Using our intelligently designed data dashboard built-off the Jet Admin platform, you can quickly understand who is lobbying the U.S. government, how much they're spending on it, and most importantly - the bills and specific issues on which they lobby.

Gain an informational edge over the market with our Lobbying Data Intelligence Platform. Search for, filter through, and download data from any period of recorded American lobbying history (1999-present). Perform analysis by company, lobbyist, lobbying firm, government agency, or issue.

For lobbying firms: understand your competitors. Understand who is registering with who. Gain insight on quarterly reports and specific issues other firms are lobbying on.

Our lobbying data is collected and aggregated from the U.S. Senate Office of Public Records from 1999-present and is updated on a regular basis. We utilize advanced data science techniques to ensure accurate data points are collected and ingested, match similar entities across time, and tickerize publicly traded companies that lobby.

Our comprehensive and advanced lobbying database is completed with all the information you need, with more than 1.6 million lobbying contracts ready-for-analysis. We include detailed information on all aspects of federal lobbying, including the following fascinating attributes, among much more:

1. Clients: The publicly traded company, privately owned company, interest group, NGO, or state or local government that employs or retains a lobbyist or lobbying firm.

2. Registrants (Lobbying Firms): Either the name of the lobbying firm hired by the client, or the name of the client if the client employs in-house lobbyists.

3. Lobbyists: The names and past government work experience of the individual lobbyists working on a lobbying contract.

4. General Issues: The general issues for which clients lobby on (ex: ENV - Environment, TOB - Tobacco, FAM - Family Issues/Abortion).

5. Specific Issues: A long text description of the exact bills and specific issues for which clients lobby on.

6. Bills Lobbied On: A parsed version of Specific Issues that catches specific HR, PL, and ACTS lobbied on (ex: H.R. 2347, S. 1117, Tax Cuts and Jobs Act).

7. Agencies Lobbied: The names of one or more of 250+ government agencies lobbied on in the contract (ex: White House, FDA, DOD).

8. Foreign Entities: The names and origin countries of entities affiliated with the client (ex: BNP Paribas: France).

Gain access to our highly unique and actionable U.S. lobbying database. Further information on LobbyingData.com and our alternative datasets and database can be found on our website, or by contacting us through Datarade.

Our lobbying data is collected and aggregated from the U.S. Senate Office of Public Records from 1999-present and is updated on a regular basis. We utilize advanced data science techniques to ensure accurate data points are collected and ingested, match similar entities across time, and tickerize publicly traded companies that lobby.

Our comprehensive and advanced lobbying database is completed with all the information you need, with more than 1.6 million lobbying contracts ready-for-analysis. We include detailed information on all aspects of federal lobbying, including the following fascinating attributes, among much more:

1. Clients: The publicly traded company, privately owned company, interest group, NGO, or state or local government that employs or retains a lobbyist or lobbying firm.

2. Registrants (Lobbying Firms): Either the name of the lobbying firm hired by the client, or the name of the client if the client employs in-house lobbyists.

3. Lobbyists: The names and past government work experience of the individual lobbyists working on a lobbying contract.

4. General Issues: The general issues for which clients lobby on (ex: ENV - Environment, TOB - Tobacco, FAM - Family Issues/Abortion).

5. Specific Issues: A long text description of the exact bills and specific issues for which clients lobby on.

6. Bills Lobbied On: A parsed version of Specific Issues that catches specific HR, PL, and ACTS lobbied on (ex: H.R. 2347, S. 1117, Tax Cuts and Jobs Act).

7. Agencies Lobbied: The names of one or more of 250+ government agencies lobbied on in the contract (ex: White House, FDA, DOD).

8. Foreign Entities: The names and origin countries of entities affiliated with the client (ex: BNP Paribas: France).

Using our intelligently designed & curated data quality, researchers can easily perform analysis by company, lobbyist, lobbying firm, government agency, or issue. We earnestly work with our customers to deliver this database in the methods or formats of their choosing, from: CSV, JSON, DTA, PKL, to other formats and methods. We're flexible.

Gain access to our highly unique and actionable U.S. lobbying database. Further information on LobbyingData.com and our alternative datasets and database can be found on our website, or by contacting us through Datarade.

Analysis of ‘Lobbyist Data - Lobbyist, Employer, Client Combinations’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/269a4aec-8a0f-4d92-8545-8102a53328e3 on 13 February 2022.

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Each unique combination of a lobbyist, his/her employer, and a client of that employer. This dataset can be used to see relationships between these three entities. Each has a separate dataset with more detailed information about each lobbyist, employer, or client. See http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/ethics/provdrs/lobby.html for more information on the Board of Ethics' role in regulating and reporting on lobbying in Chicago.

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We propose a new methodology for inferring political actors' latent memberships in communities of collective activity that drive their observable interactions. Unlike existing methods, the proposed Bipartite Link Community Model (biLCM) (1) applies to two groups of actors, (2) takes into account that actors may be members of more than one community, and (3) allows a pair of actors to interact in more than one way. We apply this method to characterize legislative communities of special interest groups and politicians in the 113th U.S. Congress. Previous empirical studies of interest group politics have been limited by the difficulty of observing the ties between interest groups and politicians directly. We therefore first construct an original dataset that connects the politicians who sponsor congressional bills with the interest groups that lobby on those bills based on more than two million textual descriptions of lobbying activities. We then use the biLCM to make quantitative measurements of actors' community memberships ranging from narrow targeted interactions according to industry interests and jurisdictional committee membership to broad multifaceted connections across multiple policy domains.

Using our intelligently designed data dashboard, you can quickly understand how Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) is lobbying the U.S. government, how much they're spending on it, and most importantly - the bills and specific issues on which they lobby.

Gain an informational edge over the market with our Lobbying Data Intelligence Platform. Search for, filter through, and download data from any period of recorded American lobbying history (1999-present). Perform analysis by company, lobbyist, lobbying firm, government agency, or issue.

For lobbying firms: understand your competitors. Understand who is registering with who. Gain insight on quarterly reports and specific issues other firms are lobbying on.

Our lobbying data is collected and aggregated from the U.S. Senate Office of Public Records from 1999-present and is updated on a regular basis. We utilize advanced data science techniques to ensure accurate data points are collected and ingested, match similar entities across time, and tickerize publicly traded companies that lobby.

Our comprehensive and advanced lobbying database is completed with all the information you need, with more than 1.6 million lobbying contracts ready-for-analysis. We include detailed information on all aspects of federal lobbying, including the following fascinating attributes, among much more:

1. Clients: The publicly traded company, privately owned company, interest group, NGO, or state or local government that employs or retains a lobbyist or lobbying firm.

2. Registrants (Lobbying Firms): Either the name of the lobbying firm hired by the client, or the name of the client if the client employs in-house lobbyists.

3. Lobbyists: The names and past government work experience of the individual lobbyists working on a lobbying contract.

4. General Issues: The general issues for which clients lobby on (ex: ENV - Environment, TOB - Tobacco, FAM - Family Issues/Abortion).

5. Specific Issues: A long text description of the exact bills and specific issues for which clients lobby on.

6. Bills Lobbied On: A parsed version of Specific Issues that catches specific HR, PL, and ACTS lobbied on (ex: H.R. 2347, S. 1117, Tax Cuts and Jobs Act).

7. Agencies Lobbied: The names of one or more of 250+ government agencies lobbied on in the contract (ex: White House, FDA, DOD).

8. Foreign Entities: The names and origin countries of entities affiliated with the client (ex: BNP Paribas: France).

Gain access to our highly unique and actionable U.S. lobbying database. Further information on LobbyingData.com and our alternative datasets and database can be found on our website, or by contacting us through Datarade.

Analysis of ‘Registered City Lobbyists’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/74ad3b1d-b6ef-4dbc-9b75-3be950a584cb on 13 February 2022.

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An individual who directly communicates with a City official for the purpose of influencing a legislative or administrative matter and is compensated to spend 30 or more hours in any consecutive three-month period engaged in lobbying activities must register with the Ethics Commission as a lobbyist. This also applies to in-house lobbyists (employees who are compensated to lobby only on behalf of their employers).

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This study examines lobbying activity during four California policymaking processes and through the four institutional venues available in that state: the legislative, executive and judicial branches, and the ballot initiative. It shows that past advocacy activity explains future mobilization on the same policy issue. Groups that fail to reach their policy goals will be more likely to mobilize later if the policy process changes venue, compared to those that have achieved their policy preference. Thus the availability of multiple venues provides a counter-weight to the possible advantages received by certain group types in each venue. Furthermore, public interest groups are more likely to mobilize across venues and repeatedly within a venue, while business groups are less likely to do so.

The full text of this article can be freely accessed on the publisher's website.

Analysis of ‘Lobbying Reporting System: Lobbyist Gift Reports - November 1, 2005 to September 16, 2016’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/7b789381-5863-49f5-a334-edcd43257e8b on 27 January 2022.

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This dataset shows the value and nature of gifts made by lobbyists registered with the Maryland State Ethics Commission from November 1, 2005 to September 16, 2016.

Data are provided by the Maryland State Ethics Commission. To view the most recent data, please visit: http://search.lobby.ethics.state.md.us:8080/search.

A lobbying year runs from November 1 through October 31. Activity reports are filed for each six-month period from November 1 to April 30 and May 1 to October 31.

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The first mover advantage is a critical factor for the productivity of firms that enter new markets. Surprisingly, however, the importance of timing is rarely explored in studies of interest groups and their influence on new policy agendas. In this article, we therefore develop a theory of first mover advantages in lobbying. We argue that especially more resourceful and more highly affected organizations should be able to benefit from early lobbying. Using granular survey data on the timing of lobby efforts by interest groups on Covid-19 related policies in 10 European democracies, we test this novel theory. Our results show that timing is an important predictor of lobbying influence, but that interest groups which are hardly affected by a new policy cannot benefit from early mover advantages in the same way as affected organizations. Moreover, we give evidence for differences in first mover advantages depending on organizational staff resources.

Domestic political processes shape climate policy. In particular, there is increasing concern regarding the role of political lobbying over climate policy. This paper examines how lobbying spending on the Waxman-Markey bill, the most prominent and promising U.S. climate regulation to date, altered its likelihood of being implemented. We combine data from comprehensive U.S. lobbying records together with an empirical method for forecasting the policy's effect on the value of publicly-listed firms. Our statistical analysis suggests that lobbying by firms expecting losses from the policy was more effective than lobbying by firms expecting gains. Interpreting this finding through a game-theoretic model, we calculate that lobbying lowered the probability of enacting the Waxman-Markey bill by 13 percentage points, representing an expected social cost of $60 billion (in 2018 dollars). Our findings also reveal how future climate policy proposals can be designed to be more robust to political opposition.

Using our intelligently designed data dashboard, you can quickly understand how General Electric Company (GE) is lobbying the U.S. government, how much they're spending on it, and most importantly - the bills and specific issues on which they lobby.

Gain an informational edge over the market with our Lobbying Data Intelligence Platform. Search for, filter through, and download data from any period of recorded American lobbying history (1999-present). Perform analysis by company, lobbyist, lobbying firm, government agency, or issue.

For lobbying firms: understand your competitors. Understand who is registering with who. Gain insight on quarterly reports and specific issues other firms are lobbying on.

Our lobbying data is collected and aggregated from the U.S. Senate Office of Public Records from 1999-present and is updated on a regular basis. We utilize advanced data science techniques to ensure accurate data points are collected and ingested, match similar entities across time, and tickerize publicly traded companies that lobby.

Our comprehensive and advanced lobbying database is completed with all the information you need, with more than 1.6 million lobbying contracts ready-for-analysis. We include detailed information on all aspects of federal lobbying, including the following fascinating attributes, among much more:

1. Clients: The publicly traded company, privately owned company, interest group, NGO, or state or local government that employs or retains a lobbyist or lobbying firm.

2. Registrants (Lobbying Firms): Either the name of the lobbying firm hired by the client, or the name of the client if the client employs in-house lobbyists.

3. Lobbyists: The names and past government work experience of the individual lobbyists working on a lobbying contract.

4. General Issues: The general issues for which clients lobby on (ex: ENV - Environment, TOB - Tobacco, FAM - Family Issues/Abortion).

5. Specific Issues: A long text description of the exact bills and specific issues for which clients lobby on.

6. Bills Lobbied On: A parsed version of Specific Issues that catches specific HR, PL, and ACTS lobbied on (ex: H.R. 2347, S. 1117, Tax Cuts and Jobs Act).

7. Agencies Lobbied: The names of one or more of 250+ government agencies lobbied on in the contract (ex: White House, FDA, DOD).

8. Foreign Entities: The names and origin countries of entities affiliated with the client (ex: BNP Paribas: France).

Gain access to our highly unique and actionable U.S. lobbying database. Further information on LobbyingData.com and our alternative datasets and database can be found on our website, or by contacting us through Datarade.