Research

Published Research

• R.C.J. Marcano Rivera. Towards Networked Varieties of Capitalism: Embracing Supply-side Complexity As a Post-pandemic Research Agenda. The New School Economic Review, vol. 13, pp. 45–67, 2025.

• R. Marcano Rivera. The Question of Status in Puerto Rico Revisited: Rational Choice, Spatial Analysis, and Heresthetics. Journal of Political Inquiry at New York University, Spring 2014.

Papers Under Review and Working Papers

Draft articles available by request.

  • R. Marcano Rivera. (Under revisions). Slave Trade and Political Development: Long-term causal effects on government effectiveness and stability. Presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL.
  • R. Marcano Rivera. (Under review). Racial Heterogeneity as a Determinant of Income Inequality in Latin America. Presented at the 2016 Annual Meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, and the Southern Political Science Association, San Juan, PR.
  • R. Marcano Rivera. (In progress). Regulatory Shifts and Financial Networks. Presented at the PSA — British and Comparative Political Economy Specialist Group's Early Career Researchers' Workshop, King's College London, UK.
  • R. Marcano Rivera. (In progress). The Political Economy of Control. Presented at INSNA Sunbelt 2023, Portland, OR, and SASE 2023, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • R. Marcano Rivera. (In progress). The Japanese Keiretsu Network: Policy and Macroeconomic Responses in the 1990s. Presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL.