Book Project

Cartels Unbound: How Mexico's War on Drugs Fueled Cartel Diversification and Territorial Expansion .

Publications

Alcocer, Marco (2024) "Increasing Intergovernmental Coordination to Fight Crime: Evidence from a Police Reform in Mexico",  Political Science Research and Methods, 1–10. doi:10.1017/psrm.2024.31.

Alcocer, Marco. Falabella, Leonardo. Lange, Alex. Smith, Nicholas. Feeley, Maureen (2024) "Supplemental online resources improve data literacy education: Evidence from a social science methods course",  PLOS ONE 19(12), 1-16. 8. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0315318

Alcocer, Marco (2023) "Integrating Potential Outcomes and Cuasal Mechanisms to Guide Multi-Method Research", Qualitative & Multimethod Research, 21(2). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8418913

Signoret, Patrick, Marco Alcocer, Cecilia Farfan-Mendez, and Fernanda Sobrino (2021) "Mapping Criminal Organizations in Mexico: State Panel 2007-2015", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/N0KGCZ, Harvard Dataverse, V1
- In the media: El Financiero, Mexico Today (by Reforma), IMER Noticias, Al Calor Politico, Cuestione 

Working Papers

Women Politicians and Violence Against Women: Evidence from Mexico (with Rachel Skillman and Angie Torres-Beltran). Revise and resubmit at PSRM.
- Pre-Analysis Plan: [pdf] [OSF Registry]

Drug Wars, Organized Crime Expansion, and State Capture in Mexico
- [Draft]

Breaking Ranks: Profits, Survival, and the Fragmentation of Criminal Organizations (with Lucía Hesles)
- [Draft]

Queenpins: Women Leadership and Violence in Organized Crime (with Fernanda Quintanilla Domínguez)
-[Draft]

Criminal Dynamics and Violence Against State Officials in Mexico (with Megan Erickson). Under review.
- Draft available upon request

Criminal Conflicts and the Assassination of Law Enforcement Officers in Mexico. Under review.
- Draft available upon request

A Framework for Integrating Causal Effects and Causal Mechanisms in Multi-Method Research. Under review.
- Draft available upon request

Work in Progress

Organized Crime and Violence Against Migrants in Mexico

Party Alternation and Institutional Quality: Evidence from Mexico (with Rodrigo Canales and Alina Bitran)

In Preparation

Investigating Organized Crime: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment of Judicial Police in Mexico

Improving Collaboration to Investigate Crime: Evidence from Law Enforcement Officers in Mexico (with Jonathan Furszyfer)

Narcocultura and Perceptions of Security and the State (with Isabel Laterzo)

How U.S. Migration Policy Shapes Organized Crime in Mexico (with Elena Barham)