Poznyak D. Reflective mechanisms of voters' consciousness as political interaction agents

Dissertation is a theoretical and empirical research examining the categorical-reflective structures of voters' consciousness. These categorical-reflective structures are examined on different levels of reflection. The author researches voters' frames of references (personal constructs) and reflective mechanisms of consciousness on inter- and methaindividuum levels of reflective processes. The interrelation between the systems of "attributive" and "expectative" cognitive constructs and reflective mechanisms is examined. The images of the main political interaction partakers' and psychological peculiarities of voters' reflected self-images are analysed. Semantic spaces of voters' political consciousness are reconstructed. The dynamic model of reflective mechanisms' actualisation and their functional role in political interaction is worked-out.