Kosahovskaya O. Cognitive factors electoral behavior of Ukrainian citizens.

The thesis analyzed the features of the electoral behavior of Ukrainian citizens with theoretical and methodological possibilities cognitive approach, in which perhaps the most productive conceptual connection of theoretical and practical innovations of phenomenology, sociology, anthropology, psychology and political science, which made it possible to characterize iternal factors that influence the subjective logic of electoral activity - emotional, political values, knowledge and interests, and social well-being as the dominant component in the structure of the cognitive experience of the individual. Justified by the need for a cognitive-oriented mechanisms that influence the effectiveness of electoral behavior, particularly in the aspect of the formation of political competence. Defined the basic components and integrative factors of subjective political competence as a system of political knowledge and experience to influence the actual policies.