Regarding the article in Passage 3, which of the following is the topic sentence of paragraph 2?
A. "Perhaps because it is very difficult to pin down and measure the successful exercise of influence, most contemporary scholarship on lobbying skirts the issue."
B. "'In both the United States and the European Union,' explains political scientist Christine Mahoney, 'scholars have focused on a whole host of lobbying-related phenomena—formation, organization, access, activity—but not influence' as such."
C. "Adherents of both perspectives tend to fall short in measuring
influence."
D. "This is true despite the fact that the scholarly literature revolves around two distinct theories of lobbying, exchange theories and persuasion theories, both of which make assumptions about how interactions between lobbyists and legislators influence legislative outcomes."
The topic sentence of paragraph 2 is: "This is true despite the fact that the scholarly literature revolves around two distinct theories of lobbying, exchange theories, and persuasion theories, both of which make assumptions about how interactions between lobbyists and legislators influence legislative outcomes."
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