Describe the advantages and disadvantages of the United States' shift to candidate-centered campaigns.
What will be an ideal response?
One advantage of candidate-centered campaigns is that they bring flexibility and new blood to electoral politics. This means the political system can more quickly adapt to new realities. Also, candidate-centered campaigns encourage national officeholders to be more responsive to local interests, because personal support among local constituents is the key to re-election. A disadvantage is that officeholders' accountability to the public is reduced, because an incumbent can always blame other officeholders for policy problems. Another disadvantage is that candidate-centered campaigns increase the influence of powerful and wealthy interest groups to influence candidates with donations and monetary support.
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Jim Drinkard describes the pharmaceutical lobby in Washington as
a. waning in influence since the 2004 election. b. traditionally weak and fragmented. c. one of the strongest and most well-connected lobby in the city. d. gaining in influence since the 2004 election, but it is still relatively weak.