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Mainstreaming gender in political science education requires legislation, structures, instruments, and critical actors, not to mention a favourable political context for putting the issue on the agenda. This article examines these issues in the Spanish context with particular reference to the opportunities afforded to the mainstreaming of gender in higher education as a result of the European Higher Education Area and the policies pursued by the Socialist Zapatero government (2004–2011). Upon the back of these initiatives, undergraduate gender and politics studies were introduced for the first time in Spanish universities, having from the most part until then been the reserve of interdisciplinary Masters programmes on gender. While the opportunities to embed gender within political science education have been opened up, this process of mainstreaming has also been characterised by resistance. These issues are unpacked through a case study of the development of the gender and politics network within the Spanish Association of Political and Administrative Science, as well as through reference to the project of a pioneering textbook on mainstreaming gender in political science.
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See for instance the FPI-FPU and Juan de la Cierva programs funding respectively Ph.D. and post-doctoral grants.
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The authors wish to thank members of the gender and politics group of the Spanish Association of Political and Administrative Science (AECPA) for sharing information with us. Emanuela Lombardo wishes to acknowledge the funding received from the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad through the Evanpolge research project (Ref: FEM2012–33117). Alba Alonso wants to thank the Xunta de Galicia for the funding received through a postdoctoral grant.
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alonso, a., lombardo, e. ending ghettoization? mainstreaming gender in spanish political science education. Eur Polit Sci 15, 292–302 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1057/eps.2015.77
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