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The aim in this paper is to describe the bureau‐political model and suggest where it might be applied in further research. The focus is upon the diverse and often seemingly chaotic public organizational and policy responses to urban crises and policy change. The research covers the factors that shape local level organizational structures and policy especially in public/private sector partnerships (PPPs). The bureau‐political model presented here derives from research originally published in this journal (Jacobs, 1993). The 1993 paper dealt with policy responses to urban riots in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US). Cases presented elsewhere (Jacobs, 1986; 1988; 1989; 1992) also inform the present research.

The problems of cities in developing nations and in the more affluent developed economies exhibit both similarities and differences. Kasarda and Parnell present an important collection of papers about the problems of Third World cities. Gittell deals with aspects of small city regeneration in the United States.

This research considers the bureaucratic politics of recent riot crisis management and urban policy in Britain and the United States.1 The bureaucratic politics model is evaluated and a tentative framework for its development as a way of analysing governmental responses to urban riots is proposed.2 The links between crisis management in riots and wider urban policy are identified as being important in developing an understanding of the nature of post‐riot policy responses within the context of the broader political environment.