Herman Finer (February 24, 1898 – March 4, 1969) was a Jewish

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-born British political scientist and Fabian

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. Finer was born in

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, Romania, to Max Finer and Fanny Weiner. 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 King ...

Peter Pulzer
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''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 25 September 2017 and the uncle of

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instrumentalist and composer

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. He died from a heart attack in

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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

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'', 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 &

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. 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 * * ''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. * "Dulles over SUEZ", 1964, Quadrangle Books, Chicago

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* * {{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