Universidad Autónoma Monterrey

Mexico: Substantial Rights Advances and The Puzzle of Limited Anti-rights Mobilization

Abstract This article refines Payne, Zulver, and Escoffier’s (2023) theory of the right against rights (RagR) through the Mexican case, where significant advances in the rights of disadvantaged groups coexist with limited anti-rights mobilization mainly targeting gender equality...

Managing risk, producing default: African agricultural loan schemes in colonial Kenya, 1948–1959

This article examines the design and implementation of agricultural loan schemes extended to African farmers in colonial Kenya between 1948 and the late 1950s. Drawing on administrative correspondence, district returns, loan records, and financial statements from the African Land...