Which of the following is the best response when your teacher asks you to explain regime changes in states using the death of longtime dictators? Short-term explanations are not useful for explaining outcomes in politics because they do not vary and as such cannot effectively explain larger or whole patterns of regime change. Short-term explanations are useful for highlighting broad patterns of regime change across cases but provide little in-depth explanation as to the specific causes in an individual case. Short-term explanations are useful for explaining outcomes in politics, but they often vary widely among cases and as such cannot effectively explain larger or whole patterns of regime change. Short-term explanations are the ideal method for explaining outcomes in politics due to their high levels of variance among cases and their ability to explain larger or whole patterns of regime change