Table 4 Data sources to analyse lobbying
Government data | Publicly available data | Commercially available data |
|---|---|---|
United States Book of the States California Secretary of State's lobbying report Eye on Lobbying (formerly Eye on Wisconsin via Wisconsin Ethics Commission's Lobbying) Federal Election Commission Foreign Agents Registration Act Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States IRS Form 990 Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) Reports Minnesota Campaign Finance Board Office of Administrative Law (California) Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Office of Management and Budget reviews Official California Legislative Information SAM.gov (formerly Federal Business Opportunities database) Securities and Exchange Commission (comment letters, meetings, rulemaking, citations) Senate Finance Committee Social Security Administration Baby Names database Trade Advisory Committee Membership U.S. Census Bureau U.S. Department of Commerce US Congressional Hearings USA state lobbyist registers (e.g., Florida Commission on Ethics; Wisconsin Government Accountability Board, North Carolina Secretary of State) European Union EUR-Lex (EU) Eurobarometer surveys European Commission (Calendars of Commissioners and cabinet; meetings; Directorate-General for Budget; Consultations; Register of Expert Groups; Register of Commission Documents; Eurostat) European Parliament (Public Register of Documents; door pass register) Lobby Transparency (European Parliament Member pages via Transparency International LobbyCal plugin) Transparency Register (of the European Commission, formerly CONECCS and Register of Interest Representatives) Register of Lobbying (Ireland) electionsireland.org (Ireland) Houses of the Oireachtas (Ireland) German Lobby Register (via Bundesanzeiger, publication of the German Ministry of Justice) (Germany) OECKL Handbuch des Öffentlichen Lebens Deutschland (Germany) Le conseil national de la vie associative (France) Other History of the Law (via Library of the National Congress Chile, www.congreso.cl) (Chile) Lobbying Contact Reports of British Conservative Party (UK)) Public Sector Transparency Board (UK) Register for All-Party Parliamentary Groups (UK) Registry of Lobbyists (Canada) Meetings and correspondence on healthy eating (Health Canada) Government Register of Lobbyists (Australia) Productivity Commission (Australia) | Center for Progressive Reform Comparative Agendas Project (formerly Policy Agenda's project) Environmental Working Group European Patent Register European Union Policy Agendas Project codebook FollowTheMoney.org (National Institute of Money in State Politics, now merged with Open Secrets) Forbes Global 2000 Fortune 100 Lists Fortune Global 500 Freedom-of-Information request (e.g., https://corporateeurope.org/en/financial-lobby/2017/10/open-doors-forces-finance) GovTrack.us Interarena project INTEREURO project International Standard Industrial Classification scheme Investor Responsibility Research Center Italian Stock Exchange LobbyView Open Secrets (formerly Center for Responsive Politics) Public Citizen Sunlight Foundation The European Election Studies UN Accreditation database Vote Smart Voter Information Services | American lobbyists directory BoardEx Breach Level Index Compustat Congressional Districts in the 1990s: A Portrait of America Directory of British Associations Directory of Corporate Affiliations Encyclopedia of Associations First Street Guida Monaci sul Sistema Italia (Italian interest group registration) International Accounting Standards Board LexisNexis Nealon’s Guide Orbis Pyttersen Almanak, Netherlands Refinitiv Datastream Russell 2000 Index SDC VentureXpert State Full Text of Bills database on Nexis Academic Universe The European Public Affairs Directory Thomson Financial Securities Data Thomson Reuters Business Classification Thomson Reuters Stock Ownership Washington Representatives (formerly www.lobbyists.info, now https://www.washingtonrepresentatives.com/) WestLaw Next Yearbook of International Organizations |