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Herman Finer (February 24, 1898 – March 4, 1969) was a Jewish Romanian-born British political scientist and Fabian socialist.

Finer was born in Hertsa, Romania, to Max Finer and Fanny Weiner. He taught for many years at the University of Chicago. He was the eldest brother of Samuel Finer.^[1]

He died in Chicago.

Literary works edit

Foreign governments at work, 1921
The case against proportional representation, 1924
Theory and practice of modern government, 2 Vols., 1932^[1]
Representative government and a parliament, 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. 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 destiny, 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 [vi]), Methuen & Co. Ltd. London.

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