Herman Finer (February 24, 1898 in

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– March 4, 1969 in

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n-born

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political scientist and Fabian

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. His parents were Max Finer (1866/67–1945) and his wife, Fanny Weiner (1872/73–1945). They had immigrated from Romania and earned a living first as market traders and, later, as owners of a drapery shop. He taught for many years at the

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. He was the eldest brother of

Samuel Finer Samuel Edward Finer FBA (22 September 1915 – 9 June 1993) was a British political scientist and historian specializing in comparative politics, who was instrumental in advancing political studies as an academic subject in the United Kingdom ...

.Peter Pulzer
"Finer, Samuel Edward (1915–1993)"
''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 25 September 2017

Literary works

* ''Foreign governments at work'', 1921 *
The case against proportional representation
', 1924 * ''Theory and practice of modern government'', 2 Vols., 1932 * ''Representative government and a

parliament In modern politics, and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: representing the electorate, making laws, and overseeing the government via hearings and inquiries. Th ...

'', 1933 * ''English local government'', 1933 (2nd ed. 1945, 3rd 1946) * ''Mussolini's Italy'', 1935 * ''British civil service'', 1937 * ''The Delimination of the Part played by and an Analysis of the Effects of the Sense of Responsibility in Social Life and in particular in the Economic Order.'' in: ''Le sens de la responsabilite dans la vie sociale.'' Other authors Hanna Meuter, Cologne &

John Atkinson Hobson John Atkinson Hobson (6 July 1858 – 1 April 1940) was an English economist and social scientist. Hobson is best known for his writing on imperialism, which influenced Vladimir Lenin, and his theory of underconsumption. His principal and e ...

. Institut de sociologie Solvay, Parc Léopold. - Brussels (1938 or 1939), Series: Enquêtes Sociologiques, Vol. 2. Université Libre de Bruxelles. -Finer: p. 151 - 250 (engl.), ib. in French p. 251 - 338 * ''Municipal trading'', 1941 * ''International T.V.A.'', 1944 * ''Road to reaction''. 1945 * ''Future of government'', 1946 * ''America's

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'', 1947 * ''The Theory and Practice of Modern Government'', 1961 (4th ed. of the abridged one-volume 1950 edition of the two-volume work of 1932 'thoroughly rewritten as to be a new work', Preface i, Methuen & Co. Ltd. London.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Finer, Herman 1898 births 1969 deaths British political scientists Members of the Fabian Society University of Chicago faculty People from Chernivtsi Oblast 20th-century political scientists