Eleni Tsingou
Biographic Data
| ID | 291111 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eleni Tsingou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eleni |
| FAMILY NAME | Tsingou |
| SIGNATURE | TSINGOU E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Copenhagen Business School |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2072-8897 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 343 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Outsourcing authority in global policy
How is authority legitimated when global policy leads to the delegation of implementation and monitoring tasks to private actors? This paper shows that putting private actors at the forefront of compliance gives them significant interpretation autonomy, with knock-on effects for how rule-making authority is legitimated. I show that actors can mobilize to claim expertise based on their practice in, and input to, transnational administration and th…
Global Remittances and Covid-19
What happens to remittances, an important feature of the global financial system, when a pandemic strikes? Despite early predictions of significant drops in volumes, flows have been affected less than expected. This commentary explains that this outcome is attributable in part to a renewed focus on the infrastructure of global finance and an accelerated development and use of digital solutions, but that it is mostly a result of the individual eff…
Effective horizon management in transnational administration
Efforts to combat global money laundering have established a transnational administrative regime that provides peer review mutual evaluations that are coordinated among national public administrations. Led by the Financial Action Task Force, this regime encourages compliance with anti‐money laundering (AML) standards to detect “effectiveness” in administrative capacity despite an absence of reliable data on money laundering activity. This article…
Revolving doors in international financial governance
Revolving doors' is a well-suspected phenomenon of skills and knowledge transfer between the private and public sectors. It is thought to be especially notable among elites in transnational policy networks, where mobility can accrue status. In this article, we investigate revolving doors in the area of international financial governance. We target policymakers linked to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) and the International Monet…
Fighting Financial Crime
The Political Economy of Policy Vacuums
Supranational organisations can only confront politico-economic issues that are recognised as important. Typically, issues gain recognition either when they provide an external shock to the system, shaking political actors into action, or when they are framed as important in policy networks concerned with developing the appropriate scientific approach. Ideally political and scientific actors align in creating pressures to recognise the issue as s…
Europe's fast- and slow-burning crises
The European Union has been confronted with crises across a range of policy areas. Crises have typically been viewed as providing impetus for further integration but are now straining the European project. This research agenda piece proposes a framework to understand crises and distinguish how they are comprehended as ‘fast-burning’ and ‘slow-burning’ phenomena. Those who view crises as fast-burning typically rally material and ideational resourc…
Professional emergence on transnational issues
Addressing complex transnational problems requires coordination from different professionals. The emergence of new actors and issues has been addressed by those interested in studies of organizations through concepts and methods that highlight the importance of communities, fields, and networks. These approaches are important in identifying the sources of what becomes established, but less geared to identifying interactions that are emergent. Thi…
Bodies of Knowledge in Reproduction
Professionals compete and cooperate over how states should govern their population. Declining fertility rates in advanced economies have led to debates about how to enable those of reproductive age to have more children and to have them earlier. This springs from political and socio-economic concerns about fulfilling desired fertility rates, maintaining high levels of human capital, and supporting fiscal and pension systems. This article investig…
Club governance and the making of global financial rules
Who writes the rules of global finance? This article explains how the transnational financial policy community can influence the content of financial governance by organizing itself via a club model. This agent-centered explanation advances the concept of a club to highlight the mechanisms through which actors operate, the expertise and skills valued by this community and the way in which principles for what constitutes appropriate financial gove…
Distinctions, affiliations, and professional knowledge in financial reform expert groups
Who determines what ideas matter in reform debates? This contribution examines reform proposals from the expert groups that emerged during the recent international financial crisis. To do so it follows fractal distinctions – distinctions that replicate themselves in subsequent iterations – among the reports. Fractal distinctions, such as between ‘behaviour’ or ‘system’ as a reform focus, allow us to locate the object of regulation within expert g…
Power Elites and Club-Model Governance in Global Finance
Why and how have pre-financial crisis power elites maintained their influence and privileges in the post-crisis governance landscape? To understand their continuing relevance, it is useful to consider the mechanisms through which these global agents attain and preserve authority. A close examination of the actions and interactions of the transnational financial policy community, actors traditionally understood as elites, shows that they organize …
Transnational Veto Players and the Practice of Financial Reform
Research Highlights and Abstract Concepts from domestic and comparative politics can be applied in a transnational context; the article develops the notion of ‘transnational veto players'to explain the practice of financial reform. Understanding the nature of constituency in a transnational context is important for explanations of actor preferences and the mode of policy that ensues. While actors involved in global standard-setting in finance hav…
Regulating finance after the crisis
It is now widely recognized that regulatory failures contributed to the onset of the global financial crisis. Redressing such failures has, thus, been a key policy priority in the post‐crisis reform agenda at both the domestic and international levels. This special issue investigates the process of post‐crisis financial regulatory reform in a number of crucial issue areas, including the rules and arrangements that govern financial supervision, of…
The politics of legitimate global governance
Legitimacy is an important question to ask of the theory and practice of global governance. In this introduction, we make two propositions that are used to push thinking about these issues forward. Firstly, in analytical terms we outline a spectrum between legitimacy and legitimization which is aimed to capture the diverse set of approaches to this subject and to develop an engaged and reformist attitude that refuses the either-or distinction in …
Global financial governance and the developing anti-money laundering regime
Responding to the Global Credit Crisis
This financial crisis emerged from an over-supply of financial innovation and an under-supply of financial regulation within the core advanced economies. Financial governance reform can focus on behaviour, acknowledge systemic implications and inherent limitations, and strive for more representation and accountability
Power Elites and Everyday Politics in International Financial Reform
No singular account of the crisis really gets at what went on or how we got here. What we do know is that the market reacts to signals (see Hall and Sinclair, this forum) and that there are permeable boundaries of exclusion in who gets to hold the talking stick. Professional groups thrive on a combination of exclusion and co-option of others’ ideas and skills that can heighten their prestige (Abbott 1988). They also rise and fall according to the…
Distinctions, affiliations, and professional knowledge in financial reform expert groups
Who determines what ideas matter in reform debates? This contribution examines reform proposals from the expert groups that emerged during the recent international financial crisis. To do so it follows fractal distinctions – distinctions that replicate themselves in subsequent iterations – among the reports. Fractal distinctions, such as between ‘behaviour’ or ‘system’ as a reform focus, allow us to locate the object of regulation within expert g…
Club governance and the making of global financial rules
Who writes the rules of global finance? This article explains how the transnational financial policy community can influence the content of financial governance by organizing itself via a club model. This agent-centered explanation advances the concept of a club to highlight the mechanisms through which actors operate, the expertise and skills valued by this community and the way in which principles for what constitutes appropriate financial gove…
Europe's fast- and slow-burning crises
The European Union has been confronted with crises across a range of policy areas. Crises have typically been viewed as providing impetus for further integration but are now straining the European project. This research agenda piece proposes a framework to understand crises and distinguish how they are comprehended as ‘fast-burning’ and ‘slow-burning’ phenomena. Those who view crises as fast-burning typically rally material and ideational resourc…
The politics of legitimate global governance
Legitimacy is an important question to ask of the theory and practice of global governance. In this introduction, we make two propositions that are used to push thinking about these issues forward. Firstly, in analytical terms we outline a spectrum between legitimacy and legitimization which is aimed to capture the diverse set of approaches to this subject and to develop an engaged and reformist attitude that refuses the either-or distinction in …
Regulating finance after the crisis
It is now widely recognized that regulatory failures contributed to the onset of the global financial crisis. Redressing such failures has, thus, been a key policy priority in the post‐crisis reform agenda at both the domestic and international levels. This special issue investigates the process of post‐crisis financial regulatory reform in a number of crucial issue areas, including the rules and arrangements that govern financial supervision, of…
Revolving doors in international financial governance
Revolving doors' is a well-suspected phenomenon of skills and knowledge transfer between the private and public sectors. It is thought to be especially notable among elites in transnational policy networks, where mobility can accrue status. In this article, we investigate revolving doors in the area of international financial governance. We target policymakers linked to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) and the International Monet…
Bodies of Knowledge in Reproduction
Professionals compete and cooperate over how states should govern their population. Declining fertility rates in advanced economies have led to debates about how to enable those of reproductive age to have more children and to have them earlier. This springs from political and socio-economic concerns about fulfilling desired fertility rates, maintaining high levels of human capital, and supporting fiscal and pension systems. This article investig…
Global financial governance and the developing anti-money laundering regime
Power Elites and Everyday Politics in International Financial Reform
No singular account of the crisis really gets at what went on or how we got here. What we do know is that the market reacts to signals (see Hall and Sinclair, this forum) and that there are permeable boundaries of exclusion in who gets to hold the talking stick. Professional groups thrive on a combination of exclusion and co-option of others’ ideas and skills that can heighten their prestige (Abbott 1988). They also rise and fall according to the…
Effective horizon management in transnational administration
Efforts to combat global money laundering have established a transnational administrative regime that provides peer review mutual evaluations that are coordinated among national public administrations. Led by the Financial Action Task Force, this regime encourages compliance with anti‐money laundering (AML) standards to detect “effectiveness” in administrative capacity despite an absence of reliable data on money laundering activity. This article…
Transnational Veto Players and the Practice of Financial Reform
Research Highlights and Abstract Concepts from domestic and comparative politics can be applied in a transnational context; the article develops the notion of ‘transnational veto players'to explain the practice of financial reform. Understanding the nature of constituency in a transnational context is important for explanations of actor preferences and the mode of policy that ensues. While actors involved in global standard-setting in finance hav…
Responding to the Global Credit Crisis
This financial crisis emerged from an over-supply of financial innovation and an under-supply of financial regulation within the core advanced economies. Financial governance reform can focus on behaviour, acknowledge systemic implications and inherent limitations, and strive for more representation and accountability
Outsourcing authority in global policy
How is authority legitimated when global policy leads to the delegation of implementation and monitoring tasks to private actors? This paper shows that putting private actors at the forefront of compliance gives them significant interpretation autonomy, with knock-on effects for how rule-making authority is legitimated. I show that actors can mobilize to claim expertise based on their practice in, and input to, transnational administration and th…
Power Elites and Club-Model Governance in Global Finance
Why and how have pre-financial crisis power elites maintained their influence and privileges in the post-crisis governance landscape? To understand their continuing relevance, it is useful to consider the mechanisms through which these global agents attain and preserve authority. A close examination of the actions and interactions of the transnational financial policy community, actors traditionally understood as elites, shows that they organize …
The Political Economy of Policy Vacuums
Supranational organisations can only confront politico-economic issues that are recognised as important. Typically, issues gain recognition either when they provide an external shock to the system, shaking political actors into action, or when they are framed as important in policy networks concerned with developing the appropriate scientific approach. Ideally political and scientific actors align in creating pressures to recognise the issue as s…
Power Elites and Everyday Politics in International Financial Reform
No singular account of the crisis really gets at what went on or how we got here. What we do know is that the market reacts to signals (see Hall and Sinclair, this forum) and that there are permeable boundaries of exclusion in who gets to hold the talking stick. Professional groups thrive on a combination of exclusion and co-option of others’ ideas and skills that can heighten their prestige (Abbott 1988). They also rise and fall according to the…
Global financial governance and the developing anti-money laundering regime
Responding to the Global Credit Crisis
This financial crisis emerged from an over-supply of financial innovation and an under-supply of financial regulation within the core advanced economies. Financial governance reform can focus on behaviour, acknowledge systemic implications and inherent limitations, and strive for more representation and accountability
The politics of legitimate global governance
Legitimacy is an important question to ask of the theory and practice of global governance. In this introduction, we make two propositions that are used to push thinking about these issues forward. Firstly, in analytical terms we outline a spectrum between legitimacy and legitimization which is aimed to capture the diverse set of approaches to this subject and to develop an engaged and reformist attitude that refuses the either-or distinction in …
Transnational Veto Players and the Practice of Financial Reform
Research Highlights and Abstract Concepts from domestic and comparative politics can be applied in a transnational context; the article develops the notion of ‘transnational veto players'to explain the practice of financial reform. Understanding the nature of constituency in a transnational context is important for explanations of actor preferences and the mode of policy that ensues. While actors involved in global standard-setting in finance hav…
Regulating finance after the crisis
It is now widely recognized that regulatory failures contributed to the onset of the global financial crisis. Redressing such failures has, thus, been a key policy priority in the post‐crisis reform agenda at both the domestic and international levels. This special issue investigates the process of post‐crisis financial regulatory reform in a number of crucial issue areas, including the rules and arrangements that govern financial supervision, of…
Club governance and the making of global financial rules
Who writes the rules of global finance? This article explains how the transnational financial policy community can influence the content of financial governance by organizing itself via a club model. This agent-centered explanation advances the concept of a club to highlight the mechanisms through which actors operate, the expertise and skills valued by this community and the way in which principles for what constitutes appropriate financial gove…
Distinctions, affiliations, and professional knowledge in financial reform expert groups
Who determines what ideas matter in reform debates? This contribution examines reform proposals from the expert groups that emerged during the recent international financial crisis. To do so it follows fractal distinctions – distinctions that replicate themselves in subsequent iterations – among the reports. Fractal distinctions, such as between ‘behaviour’ or ‘system’ as a reform focus, allow us to locate the object of regulation within expert g…
Power Elites and Club-Model Governance in Global Finance
Why and how have pre-financial crisis power elites maintained their influence and privileges in the post-crisis governance landscape? To understand their continuing relevance, it is useful to consider the mechanisms through which these global agents attain and preserve authority. A close examination of the actions and interactions of the transnational financial policy community, actors traditionally understood as elites, shows that they organize …
Professional emergence on transnational issues
Addressing complex transnational problems requires coordination from different professionals. The emergence of new actors and issues has been addressed by those interested in studies of organizations through concepts and methods that highlight the importance of communities, fields, and networks. These approaches are important in identifying the sources of what becomes established, but less geared to identifying interactions that are emergent. Thi…
Bodies of Knowledge in Reproduction
Professionals compete and cooperate over how states should govern their population. Declining fertility rates in advanced economies have led to debates about how to enable those of reproductive age to have more children and to have them earlier. This springs from political and socio-economic concerns about fulfilling desired fertility rates, maintaining high levels of human capital, and supporting fiscal and pension systems. This article investig…
The Political Economy of Policy Vacuums
Supranational organisations can only confront politico-economic issues that are recognised as important. Typically, issues gain recognition either when they provide an external shock to the system, shaking political actors into action, or when they are framed as important in policy networks concerned with developing the appropriate scientific approach. Ideally political and scientific actors align in creating pressures to recognise the issue as s…
Europe's fast- and slow-burning crises
The European Union has been confronted with crises across a range of policy areas. Crises have typically been viewed as providing impetus for further integration but are now straining the European project. This research agenda piece proposes a framework to understand crises and distinguish how they are comprehended as ‘fast-burning’ and ‘slow-burning’ phenomena. Those who view crises as fast-burning typically rally material and ideational resourc…
Fighting Financial Crime
Global Remittances and Covid-19
What happens to remittances, an important feature of the global financial system, when a pandemic strikes? Despite early predictions of significant drops in volumes, flows have been affected less than expected. This commentary explains that this outcome is attributable in part to a renewed focus on the infrastructure of global finance and an accelerated development and use of digital solutions, but that it is mostly a result of the individual eff…
Effective horizon management in transnational administration
Efforts to combat global money laundering have established a transnational administrative regime that provides peer review mutual evaluations that are coordinated among national public administrations. Led by the Financial Action Task Force, this regime encourages compliance with anti‐money laundering (AML) standards to detect “effectiveness” in administrative capacity despite an absence of reliable data on money laundering activity. This article…
Revolving doors in international financial governance
Revolving doors' is a well-suspected phenomenon of skills and knowledge transfer between the private and public sectors. It is thought to be especially notable among elites in transnational policy networks, where mobility can accrue status. In this article, we investigate revolving doors in the area of international financial governance. We target policymakers linked to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) and the International Monet…
Outsourcing authority in global policy
How is authority legitimated when global policy leads to the delegation of implementation and monitoring tasks to private actors? This paper shows that putting private actors at the forefront of compliance gives them significant interpretation autonomy, with knock-on effects for how rule-making authority is legitimated. I show that actors can mobilize to claim expertise based on their practice in, and input to, transnational administration and th…
Political science (15 works) · Economics (13 works) · Global Financial Regulation and Crises (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Corporate governance (8 works) · Finance (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (7 works)