Abstract
Various trends of disintegration can be found in the contemporary European state entities. In fact, the disintegration is one of the most discussed topics in present-day European politics due to the recent development in both standard democratic state entities (e.g.
Spain, UK) and state entities facing erosion of its institutional cohesion (e.g. Ukraine, Moldova).
The paper focuses mainly on the different strategies of proponents and opponents of more intensive disintegration. Specifically, it deals with different setting and conceptualization of voting as a standard democratic mechanism of public decision-making.
Voting is also one of the crucial elements in legitimacy of intended state of disintegration. The procedure of voting incorporates a broad spectrum of methods from referendums to elections.
The techniques of voting have different settings and consequences for disintegration and the quality of democracy. Some of the settings (e.g. system itself, constitutionality, proposing, scheduling, binding, suffrage, level of realization) can violate democratic standards of voting.
The main aim of the paper is therefore to examine how the different setting of voting affects the democratic standards of voting and of the political system as such and how the different setting of voting affects the outcome and the level of disintegration. The research is done by the qualitative comparison of processes in the European state entities in the past 25 years.