Contributions Data

Data on contributions to Members of Congress by organizations that lobbied the 2014 Farm Bill. The data is derived from Federal Election Commission reports. <br>The Excel file "farmbill_contributions" contains the raw data (N=37,624) used to calculate the degree centrality of each organization.<br>The Excel file "contributions_centrality" is as summary file that contains the total contributions, the total number of recipients, and the degree centrality score for each organization (N=368).<br>The Excel file "agcomm_adjacency" contains an adjacency matrix of contribution ties between organizations that contributed to members of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees used to draw the sociogram in figure 1.