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  title info:
    title: Why Knowing What To Do Is Not Enough
    sub title: A Realistic Perspective on Self-Reliance
  name:
    name part: Keizer, Anne-Greet.
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      role term: creator
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      role term: author.
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  name:
    name part: Tiemeijer, Will.
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      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: Bovens, Mark.
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (IX, 157 pages 18 illustrations in color.)
  abstract: This open access book sets out to explain the reasons for the gap between "knowing" and "doing" in view of self-reliance, which is more and more often expected of citizens. In today's society, people are expected to take responsibility for their own lives and be self-reliant. This is no easy feat. They must be on constant high alert in areas of life such as health, work and personal finances and, if things threaten to go awry, take appropriate action without further ado. What does this mean for public policy? Policymakers tend to assume that the government only needs to provide people with clear information and that, once properly informed, they will automatically do the right thing. However, it is becoming increasingly obvious that things do not work like that. Even though people know perfectly well what they ought to do, they often behave differently. Why is this? This book sets out to explain the reasons for the gap between 'knowing' and 'doing'. It focuses on the role of non-cognitive capacities, such as setting goals, taking action, persevering and coping with setbacks, and shows how these capacities are undermined by adverse circumstances. By taking the latest psychological insights fully into account, this book presents a more realist perspective on self-reliance, and shows government officials how to design rules and institutions that allow for the natural limitations in people's 'capacity to act'.
  table of contents: Chapter 1. The importance of mental capacity for self-reliance -- Chapter 2. Self-reliance in everyday life -- Chapter 3. Determinants of capacity to act -- Chapter 4. Self-reliance and situational influences -- Chapter 5. Training and intervention -- Chapter 6. Mental capacities, self-reliance and policy -- Bibliography.
  note: by Anne-Greet Keizer, Will Tiemeijer, Mark Bovens.
  note: Open Access
  subject:
    topic: Public policy
  subject:
    topic: Behavioral sciences
  subject:
    topic: Personality
  subject:
    topic: Social psychology
  subject:
    topic: Social work
  subject:
    topic: Public Policy
  subject:
    topic: Behavioral Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Personality and Social Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Social Work
  classification: JF1525.P6
  classification: 320.6
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer Nature eBook
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Research for Policy, Studies by the Netherlands Council for Government Policy
  identifier: 9789402417258
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1725-8
  access condition: Open Access
  record info:
    record creation date: 190919
    record change date: 20230829020344.3
    record identifier: in00004388105