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H alf a decade into a new global economic crisis, most policymakers, pundits, and scholars discuss the situation in nongendered ways, carting out long-standing criticisms of bloated states or of neoliberalism, despite powerful feminist critiques. At the same time, feminist scholars, particularly those within feminist political science (FPS) studying advanced democracies, have been struggling with a "central paradox. .. . The widespread formal adoption and development of. .. gender equality. .. initiatives. .. [but] their partial and variable institutionalization in terms of impact on institutional practices, norms, and outcomes" Janet Elise Johnson is grateful for travel funds from PSC-CUNY and The Nation (see Johnson 2011) and for Hrö nn Sveinsdó ttir and others who introduced me to Iceland. An earlier version of this article was presented at the European Consortium for Political Research in August of 2011 in a panel on "male dominance" chaired by Drude Dahlerup. A special thanks to our reviewers who went beyond the call of duty.