Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1980
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Professor Woolley's current research focuses on change over time in the presidency and presidential use of unilateral action. He also continues to be involved in research on the politics of monetary policy, especially involving analysis of the transcripts of meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee.

He has collaborated with others in work addressing democracy and economic growth, and California environmental policy (activities of watershed management groups). Together with Gerhard Peters, Woolley has developed an extensive web-based resource on the American presidency (http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu), which is widely used by scholars and others interested in the presidency and American political history.

In 2005, Professor Woolley was appointed Political Science Department Chair following five years in University central administration as Faculty Advisor to the Provost, Acting Dean for Social Sciences, and Associate Dean.

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Selected Recent Publications:
"The U.S. Federal Reserve and the Politics of Monetary and Financial Regulatory Policy," in Central Banking in the Age of the Euro, eds. Kenneth Dyson and Martin Marcussen.  Oxford University Press, 2009. 

State of the Union: Presidential Rhetoric from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush. CQ Press, 2007 (with Kolb and Peters).

"Watershed-based Partnerships and Coastal Ecosystem Planning" (with Michael V. McGinnis), California and the World Ocean '02, Orville T. Magoon et al., eds. American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005.

"The California Watershed Movement: Science and the Politics of Place" (with Michael V. McGinnis), Natural Resources Journal 42 (Winter 2002), pp. 133-183.

"Democracy and National Economic Performance: The Preference for Stability" (with Dennis Quinn), American Journal of Political Science 44 (July 2001), pp. 634-657.

"Using Media-Based Data in Studies of Politics," American Journal of Political Science 44 (January 2000), pp. 156-173.