University of Chicago

Georg Rilinger · University of Chicago · 2024

The California electricity crisis in 2000 caused billions in losses and led to bankruptcy for one of the state's largest utilities. More than 20 years later, the question remains: Why did the newly created electricity markets fail? In "Failure by Design," Rilinger explores practical obstacles to market design to offer a new explanation for the crisis - one that moves beyond previous interpretations that have primarily blamed incompetent politicians or corrupt energy sellers.

Manduhai Buyandelger · University of Chicago · 2022

This book traces how the complicated, contradictory paths to political representation that women in Mongolia must walk mirror those the world over. Buyandelger shows how successful women candidates use strategies of self-polishing to cultivate charisma and a reputation for being oyunlag, or intellectual. By tracing the complicated, contradictory paths to representation that women in Mongolia must walk, "A Thousand Steps to Parliament" holds a mirror up to democracies the world over, revealing an urgent need to grapple with the encroaching effects of neoliberalism in our global political systems.