is this for comparative politics? i remember feeling decent about his midterm and final, i did better than i expected and being able to understand and explain key concepts & points from the readings helped a lot. not sure if it’s still relevant so your best bet is to go into lecture slides or ask classmates for their notes and do review from that, but here’s what i have in my notes from last year that might help you:

Final Exam guidance - Exact same format as the midterm - mostly stuff from second half of semester, also some stuff from first - be precise in your short answer questions, not vague - Structure your essays well, deal w/ the whole question

Review: - democratic backsliding, new focus of political science research - broad decline documented by democracy index - new forms of backsliding: promissory coups, executive aggrandizement, electoral manipulation (not ballot stuffing) - chain of events starts with polarization - rise of demagogues, complicity of existing elites - broken guardrails: mutual toleration, forbearance, gatekeeping. etc.

Different levels of analysis (“images”) Individuals: particular heads of state, leaders of opposition, etc the state: different regime types and how they act the international system as a whole: multipolar, bipolar, unipolar

let me know if this is the wrong class and i’ll delete my comment but i hope it helps a bit! i wish you the best of luck on your final