Direct lobbying involves face-to-face interaction with legislators. Lobbyists may provide research, even going so far as drafting potential legislation, to influence policy. The types of meetings between lobbyists and legislators that spawned the term are an example of direct lobbying. Indirect, or grassroots, lobbying is often associated with charities or other nonprofits, and it mobilizes the public to weigh in on an issue in the form of letter writing or social media campaigns, marches, and petitions.
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