Book Project

Criminal Entrepreneurs: Politics and the Transformation of Mexican Drug Cartels

Publications

Alcocer, Marco (2023) “Integrating Potential Outcomes and Causal Mechanisms to Guide Multi-Method Research”, Qualitative & Multi-Method Research, 21(2). ​doi: 10.5281/zenodo.8418913

Increasing Intergovernmental Coordination to Fight Crime: Evidence from a Police Reform in Mexico. Conditionally accepted at Political Science Research and Methods.
- [Draft] [Appendix]


Working Papers

Drug Wars, Organized Crime Expansion, and State Capture: Evidence from Mexico (job market paper)
- [Draft]

Supplemental Online Resources Improve Data Litaracy Education (with Leonardo Falabella, Alex Lange, Maureen Feeley, and Nicholas Smith). Revise & resubmit.
- [​Draft] [​Appendix] Pre-Analysis Plan: [pdf] [EGAP Registry]

Women Politicians and Violence Against Women: Evidence from Mexico (with Rachel Skillman and Angie Torres-Beltran). Under review.
- [​Draft] [​Appendix] Pre-Analysis Plan: [pdf] [OSF Registry]

Criminal Dynamics and Violence Against State Officials in Mexico (with Megan Erickson). Under review.
- [Draft]

In the Line of Fire: Understanding Why Mexican Cartels Assassinate Law Enforcement Officers
- Draft available upon request

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

Work in Progress

Cutting Hydra’s Head: Leadership Decapitation and Cartel Fragmentation in Mexico (with Lucía Hesles)

Organized Crime and Violence Against Migrants in Mexico

Political (Dis)Continuity and Public Security Institutions: Evidence from Local Police Departments in Mexico (with Rodrigo Canales and Alina Bitran)

In Preparation

From Drug Lords to Warlords: Criminal Wars and the Ascendance of Militarized Cartel Leaders

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

Discrimination and Collaboration when Investigating Crime: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment of Law Enforcement Officers (with Jonathan Furszyfer)

Qualitative Methodology in Applied Political Science Research: Pitfalls and Opportunities