Book Project

Criminal Invasion: 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, Leonardo Falabella, Alexandra Lange, Nicholas Smith, and Maureen Feeley (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 

Under Review

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

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

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

Queenpins: Women Leaders and Violence in Organized Crime (with Fernanda Quintanilla Domínguez). Under review.
-[Draft]

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

Working Papers

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

Fractured Underworld: The Logic of Fragmentation in Organized Crime (with Lucía Hesles Toscana)
- [Draft]