Riots in Britain and the United States: The Bureau‐Politics of Crisis Management and Urban Policy

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.