Futurity.org » cynicism http://www.futurity.org Research news from leading universities Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:03:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Survey: U.S. leadership less cynical today http://www.futurity.org/society-culture/survey-u-s-leadership-less-cynical-today/ http://www.futurity.org/society-culture/survey-u-s-leadership-less-cynical-today/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:34:23 +0000 Futurity-Jenny Leonard http://futurity.org/?p=4487

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President Obama meets with Class of 2008 White House Fellows. (Courtesy: White House Photo Office)

RICE (US)—Contemporary leaders are less trusting, but also less cynical, than those in top positions nearly four decades ago, according to a new comprehensive survey of White House Fellows—a group that includes more than 600 prominent leaders in nearly every sector of American society.

On the eve of the 45th anniversary of the executive order establishing the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships, D. Michael Lindsay, Rice University sociology professor and Baker Institute for Public Policy scholar, today released the results from a yearlong study, which resembled the last major survey of America’s leadership cohort (the American Leadership Study of 1971-72).

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