This category lists sites related to the lobbyists and lobby firms, and resources for professionals in the field.
Broadly, a lobbyist is defined as someone who is paid compensation for encouraging the passage, defeat, or modification of legislation or regulation by communicating with or soliciting others to communicate with government officials, such as legislative representatives, commissioners, or magistrates, on behalf of an interested party such as a citizen's group, business association, or government agency.
In many jurisdictions, lobbyists and often their clients must be licensed, certified, or registered with the government and comply with certain industry ethics codes and rules.
This category is intended for professional lobbyists and lobbying firms only. Amateur/grassroots or other non-professional efforts to influence lawmaking should be submitted to more appropriate categories elsewhere:
Please submit grassroots organizing efforts into Society:Activism or Society: Politics: Civic Participation as many be appropriate.
Please submit political parties into the most appropriate branch of Regional/ .
Legislative Tracking Services provide assistance to lobbying firms and their clients by following the introduction and progress of bills through committees and legislative general assemblies. The firms provide updates to bills as they are voted upon and amended. The services provide the votes of members of the committees and the general legislative assemblies on the bill.
Submissions to this category should be firms which provide legislative tracking services to lobbying firms, public relations firms, public affairs firms, and government relations firms. The firms may provide ancillary services related to the legislative tracking services.