Guides: Government & Business Relations: Polls & Lobbying

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National Directory of Corporate Public Affairs
In this source you will find companies with $500 million in revenues and a Washington public affairs office and corporations that employ a federal lobbyist. Covering nearly 2,600 Corporations - including their political fundraising groups.
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Roper Center for Public Opinion Research This link opens in a new window
The iPOLL databank offers access to nearly half a million survey questions and answers asked in the U.S. by more than 150 survey organizations from the 1930's to the present.
Also included is access to the archives and publications of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, which contain over 17,000 datasets, JPOLL (Japanese Public Opinion), Japanese Data Library, Latin American Databank, and issues of Public Perspective Magazine.

How to Cite Roper Center Data
New York Times Polls
Latino Barometro Polls
Eurobarometer
This website contains public opinion data and analysis generated by the European Commission.

American Enterprise Institute
AEI is a private, nonpartisan, not-for-profit institution dedicated to research and education on issues of government, politics, economics, and social welfare.
Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy research organization based in Washington, DC.
Cato Institute
An American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C., originally founded as the Charles Koch Foundation in 1974.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is one of the nation’s premier policy organizations working at the federal and state levels on fiscal policy and public programs that affect low- and moderate-income families and individuals.
Hoover Institution
The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University is a public policy research center devoted to advanced study of politics, economics, and political economy—both domestic and foreign—as well as international affairs.
RAND Corporation
RAND Corporation is a nonprofit global policy think tank. It is currently financed by the U.S. government and private endowment, corporations including the healthcare industry, universities and private individuals.
Urban Institute
The Urban Institute gathers data, conducts research, evaluates programs, offers technical assistance overseas, and educates Americans on social and economic issues — to foster sound public policy and effective government.

Pew Research Center This link opens in a new window
Note: Access to datasets requires that you create a free account on the Pew website. "A nonpartisan 'fact tank' that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world."
Includes seven projects: the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, the Project for Excellence in Journalism, the Pew Internet & American Life Project, the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, the Pew Hispanic Center, the Pew Global Attitudes Project, and Social & Demographic Trends. Note that Pew datasets are released on varying schedules, with some embargoed or not released to the public to protect the privacy or confidentiality of respondents.