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Three Empirical Essays Inspired by Major Political Economy Events

This thesis presents three empirical studies, each motivated by separate major political economy events that took place in the recent past, namely the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, 2016 EU referendum and the 2016 US presidential election. This initial empirical chapter considers the causes of fiscal decentralization with a focus on the role of ethnic diversity. Using two new measures of decentralization that capture decision making autonomy and accounting for the depth of divisions between ethno-linguistic groups using the structure of language trees, I find that ethnic diversity has a positive effect on decentralization. It is the amount of fractionalization towards the leaves of the trees, where groups are more numerous and less distinct, that drives decentralization. The subsequent chapter explores the causal effect of exposure to the government's mailshot on the 2016 EU referendum. I find that individuals who were exposed to the leaflet were less likely to vote to leave the EU in the referendum. I show that the effect is driven by certain groups who only read the leaflet as a source of information and Conservative supporters who were exposed to other sources of information. The evidence is consistent with the idea that voters vary in their susceptibility to persuasion bias, which allows for heterogeneous effects across demographic groups. The final empirical chapter investigates the role of partisan alignment in the allocation of federal transfers using data from the US states. This chapter finds that the president shows a bias towards his co-partisans with federal transfers. The size of this manipulation is larger when accounting for electoral incentives. The results are in accordance with the theory that the president aims to increase his party's re-election probability by vertical performance spill-overs from lower tiers of governance

Are the effects of terrorism short-lived?

Terrorism elicits strong public reactions immediately after the attack, with important implications for democratic institutions and individual well-being. Are these effects short-lived? We answer this question using a natural experiment design and combining data on terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom with a Continuous Monitoring Survey. We find that heightened risk perceptions and emotional reactions in the wake of deadly attacks do not dissipate in the very short run but are sustained over time and up to 120 days after the attacks. Whereas large-scale attacks cause a long-lasting shift in risk assessments and emotions, the corresponding effect of smaller-scale terrorism incidents appears to subside within one month. Overall, the impact of terrorism does not fade away easily

The impact of career politicians: evidence from US governor

This paper exploits the presence of Congressional experience in US governors that permits the identification of the relationship between political career experience and intergovernmental transfers. I assemble a novel dataset of governors’ political background and match this to federal transfer data from 1950 to 2008. Governors with Congressional experience have 0.8 percentage points more transfers to their state. I show evidence for one potential channel that this may act through, the federal grants system. The findings are robust to outliers in the data, selection effects, close elections and an alternative dependent variable based on a state’s share of total federal transfer

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Revisiting metal fluorides as lithium-ion battery cathodes.

Metal fluorides, promising lithium-ion battery cathode materials, have been classified as conversion materials due to the reconstructive phase transitions widely presumed to occur upon lithiation. We challenge this view by studying FeF3 using X-ray total scattering and electron diffraction techniques that measure structure over multiple length scales coupled with density functional theory calculations, and by revisiting prior experimental studies of FeF2 and CuF2. Metal fluoride lithiation is instead dominated by diffusion-controlled displacement mechanisms, and a clear topological relationship between the metal fluoride F- sublattices and that of LiF is established. Initial lithiation of FeF3 forms FeF2 on the particle's surface, along with a cation-ordered and stacking-disordered phase, A-LixFeyF3, which is structurally related to α-/β-LiMn2+Fe3+F6 and which topotactically transforms to B- and then C-LixFeyF3, before forming LiF and Fe. Lithiation of FeF2 and CuF2 results in a buffer phase between FeF2/CuF2 and LiF. The resulting principles will aid future developments of a wider range of isomorphic metal fluorides.X.H. is supported by funding from EPSRC Doctoral Prize, Adolphe Merkle and the Swiss National Science Foundation (Program NRP70 No. 153990) and European Commission via MSCA (Grant 798169). A.S.E. acknowledges financial support from the Royal Society. E.C.M. acknowledges funding from European Commission via MSCA (Grant 747449) and RTI2018-094550-A-100 from MICINN. Z. L. acknowledges funding from the Faraday Institution via the FutureCat consortium. C.J.P. is supported by the Royal Society through a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award, and EPSRC grant EP/P022596/1. A.L.G. acknowledges funding from the ERC (Grant 788144). This research was supported as part of the North Eastern Center for Chemical Energy Storage, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, and Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Award Number DE-SC0001294. Work done at Argonne and use of the Advanced Photon Source, an Office of Science User Facility operated for the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory, was supported by the US DOE under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. Work done at Diamond Light Source was under Proposal EE17315-1. The authors are grateful to Prof. G. Ceder and other NECCES members for many stimulating discussions concerning fluoride-based conversion reactions and on the origins of structural hysteresis. The authors also acknowledge the help from S. Dutton, T. Dean, A. Docker, M. Leskes and D. Keeble

Alien Registration- Pickard, Harry D. (Madawaska, Aroostook County)

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