Abstract
The article focuses on the issues of social exclusion and attitudes of local politicians to socially excluded people. Many studies consider the municipality and its government to represent the key role in the process of social inclusion of people endangered by social exclusion.
However there are big differences among the municipalities with regard to the operation and support of socially excluded people. Social departments of some municipalities act proactively, others do not.
The main difference lies in the self-government approach, on which has become the major aim of the present article. The research part provides a description of the attitudes of municipality-government members towards the socially excluded people in three particular municipalities in one region of the Czech Republic.