Throughout history persons with power seem to have been convinced that they could influence the people most effectively with visual art and therefore they invested a lot of resources into the visual presentation of power. It is usually argued that the people with their “simple minds” need visual art to understand a complex world. However, it might be more to the truth that not the people but the rulers themselves are the most addicted persons to the messages transported by visual arts.
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The European Quality of Life Survey is an international comparative survey project initiated by the “European Foundation for the Improvement of Working and Living Conditions”. For the survey’s second round the Foundation was looking for the assistance of experts to improve the survey’s data quality. On the one hand, it was intended to enhance the sampling procedure and the field work, and on the other hand to optimise the questionnaire.
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