North American Politics: United States and Canada

William Green, Professor of Government
Morehead State University, w.green@morehead-st.edu

North American Politics will examine two nations born from the American Revolution and sharing the longest undefended border in the world. The course will look north to Canada, our largest trading partner, as it looks south at us: a country ten times its population whose culture exercises an hydraulic effect on its way of life. To explore these two distinct, but intimately-related nations which share the North American continent, this course will focus on the context of their politics, the nature of their constitutions, participation in their political lives, the structure of their governments, and the leading domestic and international issues in the life of these two post-industrial democratic republics.

North American Politics will originate from Morehead State University, use the MSU Blackboard server and MSU electronic library reserves, and be taught by William Green, Professor of Government at MSU. You may take this course if you are an MSU, EKU, WKU, UK, and Georgetown College student. At MSU, this course is listed as GOVT 329 and IST 329; at EKU, it is POL 405; at UK it is PS 491; at WKU, it is PS 460; and at Georgetown, it is POL 470. After you register for this course on your home campus, you must email or phone Professor Green at w.green@moreheadstate.edu or 859-233-7513 and provide him with your email address, phone number, and mailing address.

Politics of the North American Auto Industry

Ernest J. Yanarella, Professor of Political Science
University of Kentucky, ejyana@uky.edu

The changing global political economy and restructuring of national, state, and local economies have placed the future of the North American automobile industry in jeopardy. This course will explore the politics of the Big Three automakers in the United States and Canada in terms of globalizing trends in the international automobile marketplace, the emergence of Japanese and South Korean transplants in North America, the challenge of flexible production methods to traditional assembly line production, the problem of overcapacity in the international auto market, the role of union labor in reorganizing the workplace, the technological advances in automobile construction and fuel efficiency, and the prospects for renewal of North American auto manufacturing in the face of global competition.

Politics of the North American Auto Industry will originate from the University of Kentucky, use the UK Blackboard server and electronic library reserves, and be taught by Ernest J. Yanarella, Professor of Political Science at UK. You may take this course if you are a MSU, EKU, WKU, UK, and Georgetown College student. At MSU, this course is listed as IST 336; at EKU, it is POL 405; at UK it is PS 491; at WKU, it is PS 460; and at Georgetown, it is POL 470. After you register for this course on your home campus, you must email or phone Professor Ernest J. Yanarella at ejyana@uky.edu or 859-257-2989 and provide him with your email address, phone number, and mailing address.