Learning from America: Policy Transfer and the Development of the British Workfare State: Policy Transfer and the Development of the British Workfare System

This title demonstrates how and why the Thatcher government was influenced by the Reagan administration's policies in its development of UK employment policy during the 1980s and 1990s, in particular, the tying of an individual's receipt of welfare benefits to participation in a government employment or training programme.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Preface; A Survey of the Historical Development of Religion in Ancient Egypt; Introduction; The Predynastic and Early Dynastic Communities; The Predynastic societies; The Dynastic Race; The political and social organisation of the Naqada II communities; The Unification of Egypt; The political organisation of the Early Dynastic period; Religious beliefs and practices during the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods; The contribution of the Archaic Period; The Old Kingdom; Organisation of the society; Religious organisation; Cosmogonies; The cult of Re; The Wisdom Literature; The funerary beliefs and customs of the Old Kingdom; The Pyramid Texts; The tombs of the nobility; Tomb art -- the underlying principles; The decline of the Old Kingdom; The First Intermediate Period and the; Middle Kingdom; Collapse of the society; Restoration of political order; The Middle Kingdom; Religious developments in Dynasties 11 and 12; Royal funerary monuments of Dynasties 11 and 12; The royal jewellery of the Middle Kingdom; A pyramid workmen's village; Osiris and the democratisation of funerary beliefs; The tombs of the nobles during the First Intermediate; Period and the Middle Kingdom; Tomb equipment and furniture; The New Kingdom; The period of Hyksos rule; The role of Amen-Re (Amun); The Egyptian temple; The priesthood; The role of religion in education; The role of religion in the law; The role of religion in medicine; Household gods and personal piety; The relationship between Egyptian and foreign cults and deities; Funerary beliefs and practices in the New Kingdom; The court of Amenophis III; History of the Aten; Aspects of Atenism; The counter-revolution; Some Contributions made by Egyptian Religion to other Religions; Index.

About the Author :
David Dolowitz is a professor of Politics at the University of Liverpool. His primary area of interest is in the the processes involved in policy transfer and learning occurring in the increasingly globalised world.

Review :
"A significant contribution that lays out an empirically testable general theory of how policy transfer occurs." -- British Politics Group Newsletter. "An exemplary piece of comparative policy analysisiry." -- Michael Moran, University of Manchester. "The study should be of great value to students and practitioners alike examining both policy transfer and welfare state development." -- David Marsh, University of Birmingham. "An important contribution to the study of public policy." -- Desmond King, St John's College, Oxford.