“Metropolitan Governance in Madrid: Institutionalization and Models from a Policy Perspective”

Metropolitan areas are considered optimal for development in the context of globalization. In fact, most European countries have promoted institutional reforms aimed at formalizing this scale (e.g., Italy, France, etc.) or identified potential for the emergence of metropolitan arrangements (e.g., Germany). While rare in Spain, Madrid is the largest functional metropolitan area in the Iberian peninsula, and the fourth most populated in the European Union (EU). However, it is an atypical case of “deinstitutionalization” of the metropolitan area.