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The aim of this article is to identify gaps in consideringlocal self-government as an inherently primarily non-politicalor anti-political area. The concept of local cleavages, whichis based on the theory of cleavages of Stein Rokkan and SeymourM. Lipset, is then presented. The author shows eleven potentialcleavages which can be observed in Czech local politics. Six ofthem are clearly based on the local level: the developmentcontradiction, the origin contradiction, the geographiccontradiction, the clubs contradiction, the citizen vs.community contradiction, the contradiction about the extent offunctions of the municipality. Another four cleavages arederived from the national level: religious cleavage,socialeconomic cleavage, the post-materialism cleavage,cleavage related to legacies of the old regime. The final oneshares the logic of those at the national level, but doesn’tfit the Lipset and Rokkan model: namely, the gendercontradiction. The article shows that politics has disappearedfrom the local level only in a declaratory way but not inreality. Under various labels such as independency,non-partisanship and expertness, the illusion of non-interestis created and maintained. However, local policy is not withoutinterests; in fact, it is a political area in every sense ofthe word.

Local Cleavages, Politics and Policy at the Local Level – Is Depolitization Real?