Marco Alcocer

Book Project



Criminal Entrepreneurs: Drug Cartel Diversification and State Capture in Mexico
- Book manuscript workshop held in May 2025


Publications



Increasing Intergovernmental Coordination to Fight Crime: Evidence from a Police Reform in Mexico
Political Science Research and Methods (2024)

Supplemental online resources improve data literacy education: Evidence from a social science methods course
with Leonardo Falabella, Alexandra Lange, Nicholas Smith, and Maureen Feeley
PLOS ONE (2024)

Integrating Potential Outcomes and Causal Mechanisms to Guide Multi-Method Research
Qualitative & Multimethod Research (2023)

Mapping Criminal Organizations in Mexico: State Panel 2007-2015
with Patrick Signoret, Cecilia Farfan-Mendez, and Fernanda Sobrino
Harvard Dataverse (2021)
- In the media: El FinancieroMexico Today (by Reforma)IMER NoticiasAl Calor PoliticoCuestione 

Under Review



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

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]