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Professor Woolley's current research focuses on change over time in the presidency and presidential use of unilateral action, and financial regulatory reform. He also continues to be involved in research on the politics of monetary policy. This especially involves 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 and award-winning website, The American Presidency Project(http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu), 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. He stepped down as Chair in July, 2012.