Herman Finer (February 24, 1898, in Hertsa, Kingdom of Romania – March 4, 1969, in Chicago, United States) was a Romanian-born British political scientist and Fabian socialist.
His parents were Max Finer (1866/7–1945) and his wife, Fanny Weiner (1872/3–1945). 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 University of Chicago. He was the eldest brother of Samuel Finer.
Foreign governments at work, 1921The case against proportional representation, 1924Theory and practice of modern government, 2 Vols., 1932Representative government and a parliament, 1933English local government, 1933 (2nd ed. 1945, 3rd 1946)Mussolini's Italy, 1935British civil service, 1937The 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 - 338Municipal trading, 1941International T.V.A., 1944Road to reaction. 1945Future of government, 1946America's destiny, 1947The 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. 