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Particular scientific disciplines focus on issues related to the financial autonomy of municipalities, but still interdisciplinary approach of research is completely unique or even missing. Political science overshadowed this topic in the past and other topics dominated political research (mainly in the Czech Republic). Nevertheless, it is evident that there is a close relationship between the political and fi nancial autonomy because the allocation of funds is a purely political decision. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the construction of fi nancial autonomy's relation to political science and clarify the relationship of local autonomy and local democracy. Th e political science is viewed through the prism of Alker, Berg-Schlosser and Stamenn and Raymond Aron's primacy of politics. This text is patterned on partial knowledge about the financial aspects of the research project on municipal autonomy in the political system of the Czech Republic supported by the Grant Agency of the Charles University and is composed on the basis of the research of the theoretical literature of various social science disciplines and the study of research team around K. Verhoest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]