Maria Marcussen
Biographic Data
| ID | 288224 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Marcussen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Marcussen |
| SIGNATURE | MARCUSSEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4614-286X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 197 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Scientization: A self-critical afterthought
In the decade 1995-2005, I had the opportunity to spend weeks if not months in the deep and protected basements of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Swedish Riksbank, the Bank for International Settlements, and the Danish central bank.This was where the central banks had stored their institutional memory.These were the days before digitalization.Literally flipping through tons of paper, it was possible to get a glimpse of the inner workin…
European administrative centre formation. Lessons from international bureaucracies
The OECD civil servant: Caught between Scylla and Charybdis 1
Civil servants in international secretariats are exposed to numerous, cross-cutting and, at times, conflicting pressures and expectations. The secretariat of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is no different. This study reveals a fundamental ‘misfit’ between external demands and internal dynamics in the OECD Secretariat. On one hand, the OECD analysts are employed on the basis of merit. Compared to the employees in …
Transverse Integration in European Economic Governance: Between Unitary and Differentiated Integration
After more than a decade of the euro, we have a good idea about what sort of European macro‐economic governance structure is in the making — its underlying principles and its relationship to EU ‘deepening’ and ‘widening’ and, not least, to globalization. In relation to economic union, above all the single market, the principle of unitary integration provides an overarching framework, its rationale provided by customs union theory. In contrast, mo…
Scientization of Central Banking: The Politics of A-Politicization
Central banks across the world are embedded in a variety of national contexts and histories. They are exposed to a multitude of challenges that require learning and adaptation in very specific situations. Globalization, regional integration processes, financial crises, wars, and terrorist attacks impact differently on central banks. In most cases, the central banks feel that flexibility and change are imperative because of these challenges. Seen …
Bending and bowing the BIS
The official story of the Bank for International Settlements is one of continuous transformation over a period of almost 80 years. It has survived one crisis after the other. It is true that its functions and purpose have changed over the years, but the chameleonic change the Bank exhibits does not reflect change in all aspects of what is a very complex organization. If we look inside the organization we get a picture of basic command structures …
Out of the Box: Coping Successfully with Euro-Outsiderness
The existence of the euro-area has lowered the costs emanating from the autumn 2008 financial crisis for weak euro-area economies. For the Scandinavian euro-outsiders, the financial crisis awoke a public discussion about the pros and cons of the euro. This is just natural in a situation of crisis. Owing to their good economic standing, however, the Scandinavian euro-outsiders have not, on the whole, been worse off outside the euro-area than EU me…
Being Montana - et signalement af vor tids virksomhedskommunikation
I 2003 udsendte møbelfabrikken Montana en firefarvet og firesproget brochure, »Being Montana«, - en 136 siders sag, trykt på tykt papir og med omslag af kraftig karton. En utraditionel brochure, som ikke blot præsenterer virksomhedens produkt – en funktionel reolserie med næsten uendelige kombinationsmuligheder – men som med avanceret billedsprog og tvetydig symbolik vil kommunikere en særlig identitet og position. Med brochuren vil virksomheden …
Globalization and institutional competitiveness
Only dead institutions do not change and only rarely do institutions change by themselves. To maintain performing institutions takes institutional entrepreneurs who are willing to take risks and who possess the capacity and the talent to innovate. A regulation discourse, in contrast to a marketization discourse, would not picture the relationship between globalization and institutional change as a deterministic one. Rather, it would expect that a…
Democratic Network Governance in Europe
Re-discovering International Executive Institutions
Denmark and european monetary integration: Out but far from over
Denmark is not likely to introduce the European single currency in the foreseeable future. At present, Danish politicians and the country’s population do not consider the issue of the euro to be of primary importance for the development of the Danish society and polity. Despite (or maybe because of) the fact that the country is a euro‐outsider it is performing quite well economically and politically. Thus, Denmark may be an ‘out’ country but it i…
Central banks on the move
More than 90 per cent of all independent states have established a central bank in some form or other. During the 1990s, a vast majority of all central banks underwent structural reforms, thus achieving a larger measure of legal independence. The article illustrates that the central bank case is particularly interesting since it demonstrates that different levels and dimensions of convergence and divergence are closely interrelated, and that it t…
Monetarism and the Masses: Denmark and Economic Integration in Europe
The purpose of the article is to find out more about the informal rules that constrain the protagonists in a public discursive field. What are the rules? Under what conditions do they change? What consequences do they have for the way in which political elites frame their messages? With regard to the first question, we focus on the Danish Economic Monetary Union (EMU) referendum and identify rules at two different levels of analysis: causal ideas…
Ideas and Elites. The Social Construction of Economic and Monetary Union
The Danish EMU Referendum 2000: Business as Usual
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Dynamics of EMU Ideas
With a view to better understanding why the `Maastricht EMU' — contrary to various proposals for Economic and Monetary Union from early history of European monetary integration — gives priority to `sound money and finances' and central bank independence over other macro-economic objectives, it is suggested that the EMU be considered as being the very last stage of an `ideational life-cycle' that took off at the end of the 1970s. Contrary to appro…
Constructing Europe? The evolution of French, British and German nation state identities
This article tackles the following puzzle. Why is it that we cannot observe much Europeanization of 'Anglo-Saxon exceptionalism' over the past fifty years, while 'Germanness' has spelt European since the end of the 1950s and 'French exceptionalism', at least recently, also comes in European colours? We argue that a combination of three factors accounts for this variation in the extent to which nation state identities have become European. The fir…
Constructing Europe? The evolution of French, British and German nation state identities
This article tackles the following puzzle. Why is it that we cannot observe much Europeanization of 'Anglo-Saxon exceptionalism' over the past fifty years, while 'Germanness' has spelt European since the end of the 1950s and 'French exceptionalism', at least recently, also comes in European colours? We argue that a combination of three factors accounts for this variation in the extent to which nation state identities have become European. The fir…
Central banks on the move
More than 90 per cent of all independent states have established a central bank in some form or other. During the 1990s, a vast majority of all central banks underwent structural reforms, thus achieving a larger measure of legal independence. The article illustrates that the central bank case is particularly interesting since it demonstrates that different levels and dimensions of convergence and divergence are closely interrelated, and that it t…
Ideas and Elites. The Social Construction of Economic and Monetary Union
Transverse Integration in European Economic Governance: Between Unitary and Differentiated Integration
After more than a decade of the euro, we have a good idea about what sort of European macro‐economic governance structure is in the making — its underlying principles and its relationship to EU ‘deepening’ and ‘widening’ and, not least, to globalization. In relation to economic union, above all the single market, the principle of unitary integration provides an overarching framework, its rationale provided by customs union theory. In contrast, mo…
The OECD civil servant: Caught between Scylla and Charybdis 1
Civil servants in international secretariats are exposed to numerous, cross-cutting and, at times, conflicting pressures and expectations. The secretariat of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is no different. This study reveals a fundamental ‘misfit’ between external demands and internal dynamics in the OECD Secretariat. On one hand, the OECD analysts are employed on the basis of merit. Compared to the employees in …
Globalization and institutional competitiveness
Only dead institutions do not change and only rarely do institutions change by themselves. To maintain performing institutions takes institutional entrepreneurs who are willing to take risks and who possess the capacity and the talent to innovate. A regulation discourse, in contrast to a marketization discourse, would not picture the relationship between globalization and institutional change as a deterministic one. Rather, it would expect that a…
The Danish EMU Referendum 2000: Business as Usual
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Dynamics of EMU Ideas
With a view to better understanding why the `Maastricht EMU' — contrary to various proposals for Economic and Monetary Union from early history of European monetary integration — gives priority to `sound money and finances' and central bank independence over other macro-economic objectives, it is suggested that the EMU be considered as being the very last stage of an `ideational life-cycle' that took off at the end of the 1970s. Contrary to appro…
Re-discovering International Executive Institutions
Denmark and european monetary integration: Out but far from over
Denmark is not likely to introduce the European single currency in the foreseeable future. At present, Danish politicians and the country’s population do not consider the issue of the euro to be of primary importance for the development of the Danish society and polity. Despite (or maybe because of) the fact that the country is a euro‐outsider it is performing quite well economically and politically. Thus, Denmark may be an ‘out’ country but it i…
Monetarism and the Masses: Denmark and Economic Integration in Europe
The purpose of the article is to find out more about the informal rules that constrain the protagonists in a public discursive field. What are the rules? Under what conditions do they change? What consequences do they have for the way in which political elites frame their messages? With regard to the first question, we focus on the Danish Economic Monetary Union (EMU) referendum and identify rules at two different levels of analysis: causal ideas…
European administrative centre formation. Lessons from international bureaucracies
Bending and bowing the BIS
The official story of the Bank for International Settlements is one of continuous transformation over a period of almost 80 years. It has survived one crisis after the other. It is true that its functions and purpose have changed over the years, but the chameleonic change the Bank exhibits does not reflect change in all aspects of what is a very complex organization. If we look inside the organization we get a picture of basic command structures …
Out of the Box: Coping Successfully with Euro-Outsiderness
The existence of the euro-area has lowered the costs emanating from the autumn 2008 financial crisis for weak euro-area economies. For the Scandinavian euro-outsiders, the financial crisis awoke a public discussion about the pros and cons of the euro. This is just natural in a situation of crisis. Owing to their good economic standing, however, the Scandinavian euro-outsiders have not, on the whole, been worse off outside the euro-area than EU me…
The Dynamics of EMU Ideas
With a view to better understanding why the `Maastricht EMU' — contrary to various proposals for Economic and Monetary Union from early history of European monetary integration — gives priority to `sound money and finances' and central bank independence over other macro-economic objectives, it is suggested that the EMU be considered as being the very last stage of an `ideational life-cycle' that took off at the end of the 1970s. Contrary to appro…
Constructing Europe? The evolution of French, British and German nation state identities
This article tackles the following puzzle. Why is it that we cannot observe much Europeanization of 'Anglo-Saxon exceptionalism' over the past fifty years, while 'Germanness' has spelt European since the end of the 1950s and 'French exceptionalism', at least recently, also comes in European colours? We argue that a combination of three factors accounts for this variation in the extent to which nation state identities have become European. The fir…
The Danish EMU Referendum 2000: Business as Usual
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Ideas and Elites. The Social Construction of Economic and Monetary Union
Monetarism and the Masses: Denmark and Economic Integration in Europe
The purpose of the article is to find out more about the informal rules that constrain the protagonists in a public discursive field. What are the rules? Under what conditions do they change? What consequences do they have for the way in which political elites frame their messages? With regard to the first question, we focus on the Danish Economic Monetary Union (EMU) referendum and identify rules at two different levels of analysis: causal ideas…
Re-discovering International Executive Institutions
Denmark and european monetary integration: Out but far from over
Denmark is not likely to introduce the European single currency in the foreseeable future. At present, Danish politicians and the country’s population do not consider the issue of the euro to be of primary importance for the development of the Danish society and polity. Despite (or maybe because of) the fact that the country is a euro‐outsider it is performing quite well economically and politically. Thus, Denmark may be an ‘out’ country but it i…
Central banks on the move
More than 90 per cent of all independent states have established a central bank in some form or other. During the 1990s, a vast majority of all central banks underwent structural reforms, thus achieving a larger measure of legal independence. The article illustrates that the central bank case is particularly interesting since it demonstrates that different levels and dimensions of convergence and divergence are closely interrelated, and that it t…
Democratic Network Governance in Europe
Being Montana - et signalement af vor tids virksomhedskommunikation
I 2003 udsendte møbelfabrikken Montana en firefarvet og firesproget brochure, »Being Montana«, - en 136 siders sag, trykt på tykt papir og med omslag af kraftig karton. En utraditionel brochure, som ikke blot præsenterer virksomhedens produkt – en funktionel reolserie med næsten uendelige kombinationsmuligheder – men som med avanceret billedsprog og tvetydig symbolik vil kommunikere en særlig identitet og position. Med brochuren vil virksomheden …
Globalization and institutional competitiveness
Only dead institutions do not change and only rarely do institutions change by themselves. To maintain performing institutions takes institutional entrepreneurs who are willing to take risks and who possess the capacity and the talent to innovate. A regulation discourse, in contrast to a marketization discourse, would not picture the relationship between globalization and institutional change as a deterministic one. Rather, it would expect that a…
Scientization of Central Banking: The Politics of A-Politicization
Central banks across the world are embedded in a variety of national contexts and histories. They are exposed to a multitude of challenges that require learning and adaptation in very specific situations. Globalization, regional integration processes, financial crises, wars, and terrorist attacks impact differently on central banks. In most cases, the central banks feel that flexibility and change are imperative because of these challenges. Seen …
Bending and bowing the BIS
The official story of the Bank for International Settlements is one of continuous transformation over a period of almost 80 years. It has survived one crisis after the other. It is true that its functions and purpose have changed over the years, but the chameleonic change the Bank exhibits does not reflect change in all aspects of what is a very complex organization. If we look inside the organization we get a picture of basic command structures …
Out of the Box: Coping Successfully with Euro-Outsiderness
The existence of the euro-area has lowered the costs emanating from the autumn 2008 financial crisis for weak euro-area economies. For the Scandinavian euro-outsiders, the financial crisis awoke a public discussion about the pros and cons of the euro. This is just natural in a situation of crisis. Owing to their good economic standing, however, the Scandinavian euro-outsiders have not, on the whole, been worse off outside the euro-area than EU me…
Transverse Integration in European Economic Governance: Between Unitary and Differentiated Integration
After more than a decade of the euro, we have a good idea about what sort of European macro‐economic governance structure is in the making — its underlying principles and its relationship to EU ‘deepening’ and ‘widening’ and, not least, to globalization. In relation to economic union, above all the single market, the principle of unitary integration provides an overarching framework, its rationale provided by customs union theory. In contrast, mo…
European administrative centre formation. Lessons from international bureaucracies
The OECD civil servant: Caught between Scylla and Charybdis 1
Civil servants in international secretariats are exposed to numerous, cross-cutting and, at times, conflicting pressures and expectations. The secretariat of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is no different. This study reveals a fundamental ‘misfit’ between external demands and internal dynamics in the OECD Secretariat. On one hand, the OECD analysts are employed on the basis of merit. Compared to the employees in …
Scientization: A self-critical afterthought
In the decade 1995-2005, I had the opportunity to spend weeks if not months in the deep and protected basements of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Swedish Riksbank, the Bank for International Settlements, and the Danish central bank.This was where the central banks had stored their institutional memory.These were the days before digitalization.Literally flipping through tons of paper, it was possible to get a glimpse of the inner workin…
Political science (17 works) · Economics (13 works) · Law (12 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Economic system (6 works)