Lombardo, EmanuelaAlonso Álvarez, Alba2022-04-042022-04-042020Lombardo, E., Alonso, A. (2020). Gender Regime Change in Decentralized States: The Case of Spain, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 27, Issue 3, Fall 2020, p. 449–4661072-47451468-2893http://hdl.handle.net/10347/27897This article applies Walby’s systemic theory of gender regime to Spain’s decentralized state, to capture changes in the gender regime. Locating the “hegemon” at different levels of government for each domain (economy, polity, violence, and civil society) and considering interactions between governmental levels provided a clear understanding of changes in the gender regime. The relationship between governmental level acting as hegemon in specific domains and variations in political majorities across governmental levels explained changes toward a neoliberal– conservative type in the economy domain. Shifts toward a neoliberal gender regime in violence and polity, and toward a conservative type in civil society, were contested.eng©The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.comhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/journal article10.1093/sp/jxaa016open access