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Provides an explanation of Deming's Theory of Profound Knowledge, which includes the four core values. Cites these as appreciation for a system, some knowledge of the theory of variation, a theory of knowledge and some knowledge of psychology. Defines leadership and the actions required to implement the Deming leadership method. Argues this implementation will clear most barriers which exist when starting any total quality management programme and will allow managers/supervisors to acquire enough knowledge to make the transformation from supervisory management to leadership excellence. States that only through applying the Deming principles first will any future improvement be successful.

1. Giacomo Matteotti -- 2. Oil and the Contract with Sinclair -- 3. That June of 1924 -- 4. La Fascist Ceka -- 5. The Responsibilities of the Fascist Regime -- 6. Doubts Regarding the Motive -- 7. The Perpetrators during the Fascist Period -- 8. Carlo Silvestri -- 9. Financial Aid to the Matteotti Family.

Cover -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Historical Prologue -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Lippmann's "Phantom Public" -- 1.3 Dewey's Criticism of Lippmann: The Methodological Component -- 1.4 Dewey's Criticism of Lippmann -- 2 How Does Science Work? -- 2.1 Methodological Premises: Descriptive and Normative Aspects of Science and Democracy -- 2.2 Scientific Inferences and the Controllability of their Conclusions -- 2.3 The Fallible Character of Science and its Social Consequences -- 2.4 The Controllability of Scientific Knowledge as a Social Phenomenon -- 2.5 The Diachronic Aspect of the Control of Hypotheses and the Evolution of Social Norms -- 2.6 The Role of Criticism in the Decisional Processes of a Democracy -- 3 How Does Democracy Work? -- 3.1 Democracy and the Equality Principle as Founded in the Free Access to Scientific Knowledge -- 3.2 Democracy as the Government of the People: A Comparison with the Majority Principle in Science -- 3.3 Democracy as Separation of Powers and the Cross-control of Scientific Hypotheses -- 4 Representative Democracy, Direct Democracy, and Scientific Specialization -- 4.1 Two Kinds of Democracies -- 4.2 Populism, Direct Democracy, and its Problems -- 4.3 The Risk of Technocracy: Three Objections tothe Compatibility of Autonomous Decisions and Delegations to Experts -- 4.4 The Confutation of the Three Objections and the Social Character of Knowledge -- 4.5 The Disagreement Among Experts -- 5 Scientific Disinformation and the Distrust in Experts -- 5.1 Three Reasons Why we Intuitively Trust Science -- 5.2 Swindlers and the Origin of Disagreement Among Experts -- 5.3 Swindlers -- 5.4 Doubts and Trust -- 5.5 Scientific Fraud and Inductive Risk: Two Additional Sources of Disagreement.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Whiteness, Middle-Class Identity, and Media -- 2. Democratic Decay in Brazil -- 3. Status Panic and the Middle-Class Revolt -- 4. Domestic Workers and Whiteness in the Telenovela Cheias de Charme -- 5. Affirmative Action and White Backlash in the Newsmagazine Veja -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index.