MARTIN, Steve <br/><br/>
Re-evaluating public service improvement the early impacts of the Best Value regime 

 -  2001 
<br/><br/> Taken together these five articles offer important perspectives on the development of the Best Value regime and the challenges it presents. They draw on the most authoritative and empirically grounded assessment of the impacts of Best Value so far and, intriguingly, although written from a range of quite different standpoints, they high-light a number of important, recurring themes. These clearly merit further analysis as the regime continues to evolve. The articles therefore lay the foundations for future work - summarising much of what is currently known about the impacts of Best Value, and highlighting many of the issues about which we determinants of public service improvement