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Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to permitting of greenhouse gas emissions by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality; limiting the amount of a fee.

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the issuance of military specialty license plates; providing an exemption from a fee.

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the use of state water; providing a penalty.

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to creating American Indian Heritage Day.

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the procedure under which a person may renew a license to carry a concealed handgun.

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the notification of individuals following a breach of security of computerized data.

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the authority of a municipality to confiscate packaged fireworks; providing an affirmative defense for possessing fireworks in certain circumstances.

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation of the Westwood Management District; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose fees or taxes.

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the issuance of specialty license plates for surviving spouses of disabled veterans of the United States armed forces; authorizing a fee.

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the qualifications for certain positions with the Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas.

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to circumstances under which a vacancy on the governing body occurs in certain municipalities.

The performance of individual international organizations (IOs) has received considerable scholarly attention, not in the least because their importance for global governance. This paper adds to this body of work by adopting genuine comparative lenses. Based on a novel survey, it assesses the attributed performance of 49 IOs over two important dimensions: problem-solving effectiveness and legitimacy of outputs. This reveals variation between IOs with respect to both components. We derive hypotheses from international cooperation and IO design. The quantitative analysis reveals that except deliberative diplomatic practices many factors increasing attributed legitimacy differ from the ones increasing the attributed problem-solving effectiveness. Most notably, autonomous secretariats increase the problem-solving effectiveness attributed to IOs. Legitimacy attributions increase when IOs are regional instead of global in nature and when non-state actors have access to IO decision-making.

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Introduction; The politics of 'enterprise'; The 'enterprise culture' model of development; The state of small enterprises in Britain; Effectiveness of enterprise culture policies; Alternative development models; The importance of culture; The small enterprise owners; The entrepreneur: nature or nurture?; The future for small enterprise development; References; Index.

1. History and typology of capital cities -- 2. Capital city relocation experience -- Capital city relocations and debates of this topic in different world regions -- 4. Strategies of capital city relocations and their critics -- 5. Three standards to assess the effectiveness of a capital city.

Assessing the transformation of Russian nationalist discourse in the 21st century Russian nationalism, previously dominated by 'imperial' tendencies – pride in a large, strong and multi-ethnic state able to project its influence abroad – is increasingly focused on ethnic issues. This new ethno-nationalism has come in various guises, like racism and xenophobia, but also in a new intellectual movement of 'national democracy' deliberately seeking to emulate conservative West European nationalism. Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the subsequent violent conflict in Eastern Ukraine utterly transformed the nationalist discourse in Russia. This book provides an up-to-date survey of Russian nationalism as a political, social and intellectual phenomenon by leading Western and Russian experts in the field of nationalism studies. It includes case studies on migrantophobia; the relationship between nationalism and religion; nationalism in the media; nationalism and national identity in economic policy; nationalism in the strategy of the Putin regime as well as a survey-based study of nationalism in public opinion. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.