The article analyzes the quality of liberal democracy in 11 Central and Eastern European countries, the European Union members. The paper examines the most important fields of the process of democratization, enabling to trace the deterioration of liberal democracy like electorate’s support for populist parties, neglecting the rule of the state of law, and the level of corruption. The methods of research are the analysis and synthesis of the material, comparative method, quantitative-qualitative method. Upon the analysis, the typology of three trends of the deterioration of democratization in CEE countries can be offered: massive deterioration, small decrease, stable democracy.