e-mail: woolley@polsci.ucsb.edu
personal home page: http://www.polsci.ucsb.edu/faculty/woolley

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Fields of Interest: American Politics, Public Policy, Political Economy

Professor Woolley's current research focuses on change over time in the presidency and presidential use of unilateral action. He continues to be involved in research on the politics of monetary policy. He has collaborated with others on 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.

Courses Taught:

PS 157	The American Presidency (undergraduate)
PS 106CA	California Policy and Politics
PS 185	Government and the Economy
PS 215	The American Governmental Process
PS 256	The American Presidency (graduate)

Selected Recent Publications:
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.

Mitigating the Impact of Offshore Oil Development Final Technical Summary, Final Study Report (with James T. Lima), MMS ICS Study 2003-014. U.S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Environmental Studies Section, Pacific OCS Region, Camarillo CA, 2003.

"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.