Research

Published Research

• RCJ 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.

• RCJ 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 issue, 2014.

Papers under review and working papers
Draft articles available by request.
  • RCJ Marcano Rivera. (Under revisions for Summer 2025 submission). 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 as The long-term effects of Slave Trade in Africa, Chicago, IL.
  • RCJ Marcano Rivera. (Under review for Summer 2025 submission). 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.
  • RCJ Marcano Rivera. (In progress for Summer 2025 submission). Regulatory shifts and financial networks. Presented at the PSA - British and Comparative Political Economy Specialist Group's Early Career Researchers' Workshop at King's College London, UK.
  • RCJ Marcano Rivera. (In progress for Summer 2025 submission). The Political Economy of Control. Presented at the INSNA Sunbelt 2023 Conference, Portland, OR, and SASE 2023 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • RCJ Marcano Rivera. (In progress for Winter 2025 submission). 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.