Mapping Parliament and building an advocacy strategy
The Strategy section, reserved for the Pro plan, turns parliamentary activity into a map: who tables, who obtains, who allies.
What the Strategy section really makes possible, beyond the charts.
In detail
A parliamentary advocacy strategy rests on one simple and difficult question: who to talk to, in what order, and with what argument. The Strategy section supplies the figures that let you answer it with something other than intuition.
What you find there
| Reading | The question it answers |
|---|---|
| The most active in amendments, in interventions, in questions | Who actually works this field, beyond the spokespeople |
| Tabling and adoption, cross-read | Who gets results, and not only who tables. This is the reading that separates real weight from volume |
| Amendment alliances | Who co-signs with whom. You read the real coalitions there, which do not always follow group lines |
| Activity and audience on social media | Who carries a subject in the public debate |
| The budget views | Who weighs on the finance bills, where a significant share of sector trade-offs is settled |
| The ecosystem | The most active organisations, by declared activities and by consultation responses |
How to use it
- Filter on your field and your period. The charts are set with a search and date bounds: a mapping on “energy” over the last twelve months has nothing in common with a general mapping.
- Produce a list of priority contacts. Cross the most active with the adoption rate: you get the elected representatives who both push and obtain, which is the real criterion.
- Read the alliances. An elected representative who regularly co-signs with a rapporteur is often worth more than a more visible but isolated one.
- Date your analysis. A mapping holds for one period. Redo it at the start of each parliamentary session.
Using it as a team
These charts also serve to make a strategy understood by people who do not follow the file day to day. Showing an executive committee that three elected representatives account for half the amendments adopted on a subject is worth more than a two-page note: the decision to allocate time to those three people is taken in a single meeting.