Raphaël Kies is a researcher in Political Science and member of the Research Chair in Legislative Studies at the University of Luxembourg. Among his publications are: Is Europe listening to us? Successes and Failures of EU Citizen Consultations (ed. with Patrizia Nanz, London, Ashgate Publishing 2013), French translation: Les nouvelles voix de l’Europe? Analyses des consultations citoyennes (with a foreword by EU-Commissioner Viviane Reding, Editions Larcier/De Boeck 2014); Promises and Limits of web-deliberation (New York, Palgrave 2010).