Lobbying Data

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).