Reviews

László Csaba, ed., Systemic Change and Stabilization in Eastern Europe. Aldershot, and Brookfield, NY: Dartmouth Publishing Co., 1991, x + 141 pp. £30.00.

Christopher T. Saunders, ed., Economics and Politics of Transition. New York: Macmillan Press, 1992, x + 419 pp., £50.00.

David Lane, Soviet Society under Perestroika, Completely revised edition. London and New York: Routledge, 1992, xvi + 441 pp., £15.99.

Judith B. Sedaitis & Jim Butterfield, eds, Perestroika from Below: Social Movements in The Soviet Union. Boulder, CO, San Francisco, CA, and Oxford: 1991, xii + 220 pp., $23.00 h/b.

Michael J. Sodaro, Moscow, Germany, and the West from Khrushchev to Gorbachev. London: I. B. Tauris, 1991, xiv + 423 pp., £29.95.

Örjan Sjöberg, Rural Change and Development in Albania. Boulder, CO, San Francisco, CA, and Oxford: Westview Press, 1991, xi + 199 pp., £21.95 p/b.

Anthony Kemp‐Welch, ed., The Ideas of Nikolai Bukharin. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992, 209 pp., £27.50.     

Interstate Variation in the Allocation of State Aid To Local Schools

Do state governments attempt to reduce the disparities amonglocal school districts with well targeted aid programs? Thisarticle examines this question with a study of virtually theentire universe of U.S. independent school districts and ofthe distribution of state aid in forty-four states in 1982.In a pooled analysis of states and in separate state analyses,state aid is found to be powerfully linked to enrollment. Despitethe general pattern of enrollment-based aid programs, thirteenstates are shown to be targeting a modest amount of state aidto school districts with greater needs, such as lower per capitaincome or lower district revenues and greater school debt perpupil.