Brandon Zicha is a PhD student in political communication and researcher at the University of Antwerp, Belgium as well as a PhD candidate in political science at Binghamton University (SUNY), U.S.A. His research focuses on policy representation, political parties , and constitutional design in advanced industrial democracies. He also has an ongoing methodological interests in measuring party preferences, quantitative research design, and content analysis. His dissertations address the speed with which policy changes are made in different constitutional and party systems and role of parties in structuring legislative and public discourse of policy changes.