Systems and methods for analyzing policymaker alignment with organizational posture

An Internet-based agenda data analysis method, the method comprising:

• maintaining a list of user-selectable agenda issues;
• presenting to a user via a user interface, the list of user-selectable agenda issues, wherein each of the listed user-selectable agenda issues is configured to be selected by the user via input received from the user;
• receiving via the user interface, based on the input received from the user, agenda issues of interest to an organization, the agenda issues having been selected from the list of user-selectable agenda issues;
• accessing information scraped from the Internet to determine, for a plurality of policymakers, individual policymaker data from which an alignment position of each policymaker on each of the agenda issues selected as being of interest to the organization is determinable;
• calculating alignment position data from the individual policymaker data, the alignment position data corresponding to relative positions of each of the plurality of policymakers on each of the plurality of selected agenda issues selected as being of interest to the organization, the alignment position data comprising a measure of how each of the plurality of policymakers is oriented relative to an organizational posture of the organization, the organizational posture comprising a stance or political position of an organization on the selected agenda issues, and not an indicator of whether a particular legislative bill will pass;
• and
• transforming the alignment position data into a graphical display that presents the alignment positions of multiple policymakers on each of the agenda issues selected as being of interest to the organization.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations including:

• maintaining a list of user-selectable agenda issues;
• presenting to a user via a user interface, the list of user-selectable agenda issues, wherein each of the listed user-selectable agenda issues is configured to be selected by the user via input received from the user;
• receiving via the user interface, based on the input received from the user, agenda issues of interest to an organization, the agenda issues having been selected from the list of user-selectable agenda issues;
• accessing information scraped from the Internet to determine, for a plurality of policymakers, individual policymaker data from which an alignment position of each policymaker on each of the agenda issues selected as being of interest to the organization is determinable;
• calculating alignment position data from the individual policymaker data, the alignment position data corresponding to relative positions of each of the plurality of policymakers on each of the plurality of selected agenda issues selected as being of interest to the organization, the alignment position data comprising a measure of how each of the plurality of policymakers is oriented relative to an organizational posture of the organization, the organizational posture comprising a stance or political position of an organization on the selected agenda issues, and not an indicator of whether a particular legislative bill will pass;
• and
• transforming the alignment position data into a graphical display that presents the alignment positions of multiple policymakers on each of the agenda issues selected as being of interest to the organization.