Evaluating Culture: Sociology, Aesthetics and Policy

Evaluating interface aesthetics: a measure of symmetry

Symmetry is one of the most fundamental principles in design. The choice between symmetry and asymmetry affects the layout and feeling of a design. A symmetrical page gives a feeling of permanence and stability, while informal or asymmetrical balance creates interest. The aim of this paper is to solve the problem of an automatic detection of axial and radial symmetry or lack of it in published ...

Toward an Historical Sociology of Business Culture

Andrew Carnegie had the good fortune to possess contacts among the rich and famous on both sides of the Atlantic, wealth enough to buy the good favor of reporters, and media savvy. But he also had the ill fortune in the 1890s to need all these resources, for in that decade both his public image and his business philosophy were under challenge. At the beginning of the decade bad news kept coming...

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Identify criteria and metrics for evaluating VAT policy

Because VAT is collected from different stages of production and can cover all goods and services, it has a broad tax base and generates a lot of revenue for the government. In fact, the VAT system is a kind of tax restructuring that is mostly to increase revenues and equip financial resources to finance government expenditures. The introduction of value added tax in recent years has been one o...

Evaluating and revisiting the public government: a policy feedback perspective

Existing models of quality evaluation in public sector are mainly derived from the approaches within private sector. These models which represented by the New Public Management (NPM) paradigm, don&rsquot reflect the fundamental values of public administration, which are the very essence of the discipline and contrasting it from private sector. These core values, such as democratic citizenship, ...