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, pioneering the study of UK political institutions. His most notable work is The History of Government from the Earliest Times – a three-volume comparative analysis of all significant government systems. He was also a major contributor to the study of civil–military relations with the publication of his book, The Man on Horseback.[1]
^Samuel E. Finer. 1988. The Man on Horseback: The Role of the Military in Politics. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
Samuel Edward Finer FBA (22 September 1915 – 9 June 1993) was a British political scientist and historian specializing in comparative politics, who was...
Eurovision Song Contest. Finer was born and grew up in Sweden. Her father, David Finer, is English, while her mother, Francine Lee Mirro-Finer is Jewish American...
Jeremy Max Finer (born 25 July 1955) is an English musician, artist and composer. He was one of the founding members of The Pogues. Finer was born in Stoke-on-Trent...
Herman Finer (February 24, 1898 – March 4, 1969) was a Jewish Romanian-born British political scientist and Fabian socialist. Finer was born in Hertsa...
head of the national police or other key bodies. Political scientist SamuelFiner, writing in 1988, noted that juntas in Latin America tended to be smaller...
was continued by: "Maurice Duverger, Herman Finer, SamuelFiner, Giovanni Sartori, Carl J. Friedrich, Samuel Beer, Jean Blondel, F.A. Hermens, and Klaus...
is a familiar theme in Chinese history. In his History of Government, SamuelFiner points out that reality was not always that clear-cut. There were instances...
have been: Sir Kenneth Clinton Wheare, 1944-1956 Max Beloff, 1957-1974 SamuelFiner, 1974-1982 Peter Pulzer, 1985-1996 Alfred C. Stepan, 1996-1999 before...
mountaineer Jem Finer, musician, and founding member of The Pogues who co-wrote Fairytale of New York, and son of Prof SamuelFiner (at Keele University...
nature in order to preserve its right to rule. The political scientist SamuelFiner distinguished between stratocracy which was rule by the army and military...
linguist and orientalist Norbert Elias, sociologist Herman Finer, political scientist SamuelFiner, political scientist Sir Moses I. Finley, historian and...
politics specialist; distinguished professor at Pepperdine University SamuelFiner – academic and author on political science and history of government...
Samuel Smith Old Brewery, popularly known as Samuel Smith's or Sam Smith's, is an independent brewery and pub owner based in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire...
Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [OS 7 September] – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as...
Samuel Herman Reshevsky (born Szmul Rzeszewski; November 26, 1911 – April 4, 1992) was a Polish chess prodigy and later a leading American chess grandmaster...
the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p555 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3 SamuelFiner, Jay Stanley (2002), The man on horseback: the role of the military in...
Among his colleagues were notable pioneers of political science such as SamuelFiner, Hugh Berrington, Alan Angell and Jean Blondel. In 1964, he took up the...
linguist and orientalist Norbert Elias, sociologist Herman Finer, political scientist SamuelFiner, political scientist Sir Moses I. Finley, historian and...
Russia[citation needed] Louis Filler, U.S. historian Sidney Fine, U.S. historian SamuelFiner, British political scientist and historian Norman Finkelstein...
Samuel Kanyon Doe (6 May 1951 – 9 September 1990) was a Liberian politician who served as the 21st President of Liberia from 1986 to 1990. He ruled Liberia...
77, Indian film director. Juan Downey, 53, Chilean artist, cancer. SamuelFiner, 77, British political scientist and historian. Alexis Smith, 72, Canadian-American...
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was...
"Pont Mirabeau" (Guillaume Apollinaire, Finer; translated by Finer and Samuel Edward Finer) – 3:31 "Tosspint" (Finer) – 3:32 "Four O'Clock in the Morning"...
support of photography presaged the acceptance of the medium as a fine art. Samuel Wagstaff was born on November 4, 1921, in New York City. Wagstaff,...
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