Raphaël Kies (1973), Ph.D. in Social and Political Sciences, European University Institute (Florence, Italy)

Current Position

Adjoint de recherche (Research scientist) in Political Science. Research Chair in Legislative Studies, Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies- http://chaireparlementaire.com

Research Interest

• Theories of democracy (particularly deliberative democracy)
• Electoral studies
• E-democracy
• Political System in Luxembourg

Last updated on: mardi 20 février 2018

Media pluralism project (April 2015-ongoing): Team leader for Luxembourg; evaluate indicators of the MEDIA PLURALISM MONITOR for Luxembourg (EU funded project coordinated by the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF), European University Institute, Florence); Research and analysis of relevant media and competition legislation, political influences, conducting interviews with relevant stakeholders, communication and close collaboration with fellow team members and project coordinators.

Local autonomy index project 2015 (march 2015 –  June 2015): Team leader for Luxembourg; EU funded project coordinated by the Graduate Institute of Public Administration at the University of Lausanne; Evaluation includes in depth research on relevant legislation, analysing tendencies and conducting interviews with relevant stakeholders, communication and close team work with fellow collaborators and coordinators.

CIVILEX 2013- : Principal researcher for the study commissioned by the National Parliament for analyzing the role of the Parliament in the 21^st century. The focus is on i) the evolution of the trust in the national Parliament, 2) the evaluation of best practices for promoting citizens’ involvement through parliamentary channels, 3) the implementation and analysis of citizens’ consultation on constitutional reforms.

ELECT 2013-2014: Researcher for the study commissioned by the Luxemburgish National Parliament for analyzing the 2013 national elections and 2014 European elections.Smartvote 2013 (ongoing):Principal researcher for the implementation of Smartvote 2013, the second Voting Advice Application introduced in Luxembourg for the national elections.

EUandI 2014: Team leader of Luxembourg for implementing EUandI the European voting advice application implemented by the European University Institute.

Smartvote 2013: Principal researcher for the implementation of Smartvote 2013, the second Voting Advice Application introduced in Luxembourg for the national elections.

Scientific collaborator on the project Polux 2009-2011: Polux is a project financed by the FNR (Research national funds) that aims to ameliorate the understanding of the electoral and legislative processes through the introduction of two innovative electronic devices: Smartvote and the Legislative Monitoring Application (LMA). For more information on the project see the website of the FNR

European Citizens Consultation 2009: Organizer of the Luxemburgish consultation and  responsible for its academic evaluation in collaboration with a team of researchers from the Universities of Paris 12 (Nanterre) and the Radboud University. For more information on the event see official website  and the special issue of the online journal europaforum

Eu-Profiler:Team leader Luxembourg for implementing EU-Profiler the European voting advice application implemented by the European University Institute.

Smartvote 2009: Main researcher for the implementation of Smartvote 2009, the first Voting Advice Application introduced in Luxembourg.

ELECT 2009: Researcher for the study commissioned by the National Parliament for analyzing the 2009 National and European elections. For more information on the project see LUXPOL  (Luxembourgish association of political science) and the official report  on the website of the parliament.

Demolux: Responsible for the analysis of the second pillar of the project Demolux  that aims to identify and evaluate the new modes of political participation in the Luxemburgish context. For more information on the project see LUXPOL  (Luxembourgish association of political science).

European Citizens Consultation 2007: Organizers of the Luxemburgish consultation. For more information see official website and the special issue realized by the online journal europaforum .

Referendum 2005: Researcher for the study commissioned by the National Parliament for  analyzing the 2005 referendum on the European constitutional treaty. For more information special issue of Europaforum  and the official report on the website of the Parliament

ELECT 2004: Researcher for the study commissioned by the National Parliament for analyzing the 2004 National and European elections. For more information see official report on the website of the Parliament

E-Agora project (2006-2007):Responsible for the evaluation of three local participative budgeting experiments (the city of Ipatinga, Brazil, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France and Framerie, Belgium) in the context of the e-agora project co-funded by the European Commission for a duration of 25 months (from the April 1 2004 to April 30, 2006). For more information on the project see white book on local e-democracy .

E-voting in the canton of Geneva (2001): Co-responsible of a feasibility study commissioned by the canton of Geneva concerning the introduction of Internet voting.  For more information on I-voting in Geneva see the official website  and the official report

E-democracy in Europe: Researcher for the project commissioned by the Scientific and Technological Option Assessment (STOA) cellule of European Parliament Directorate-General. The aim was to provide for the EU member states 1) an overview of the level of e-democracy of the political parties and parliaments and 2) relevant e-democratic practices. For more information see the official report.

Recent participation to conferences and workshops

- "Convention des jeunes au Luxembourg", expert pour l'atelier 2 "democrisis?", Chambre des Députés du Luxembourg, 7 novembre 2014.

- “A critical overview of the EU Citizens’ Consultations”, Presentation at the post-gratuate seminar at the Universitade Federal de Minas Gerais, Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (Fafich), Nov 4th 2013.

- “How to evaluate EU deliberation: The case of the European Citizens Consultation.” analysis of the first European”, presentation for the conference “Technology and Democracy: governance, activism and accountability”, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte (Brazil), Oct 30th – Nov 1^st  2013.

- “La qualità della deliberazione: presentazione dei risultati della ricerca print”, Discussant, Torino, Campus Luigi Enaudi, 10 e 11 giugno 2013.  

- « Budget participatif: révélateur d’un malaise démocratique”, Organisateur du workshop dans le cadre de la conférence des associations francophones de science politique, 24-26 avril 2013.

-“ Journées doctorales Journées doctorales du RT37 (sociologie des médias) : Médias, engagements et mouvements sociaux », Discussant,   Sciences Po Bordeaux, Centre Émile Durkheim Université Bordeaux 3, 28­29 mars 2013.

- "Studying Party Cohesion with Voting Advice Application Data", Paper presented at the XXVI Convegno SISP, Universita Roma Tre, 13-15 September 2012.

- « Voting Advice application and their effects on electoral behavior”, ECPR research session, Florence, 19-22 June, 2012.

- “VAA in Luxembourg: state of the art”, VAA Research Workshop organized by the university of Düsseldorf, 2-3 March 2012.

- "Is Smartvote a civic tool for foreign residents?",Centre for Europe University of Warsaw, 18 Novembre 2011.

- « La congruence idéologique entre candidats, une mesure valide de la cohésion interne des partis politiques ? », Congrès des associations francophones de science politique, Brussels 20-22 April 2011.

- “Smartvote in Luxembourg: Usage and Impact of a New Electoral Tool”, 6^th ECPR General Conference, Reykjavik, 25-27 August 2011.

- « Vers de nouvelles formes de gouvernance? Enjeux et expériences », Séminaire international sur la Démocratie électronique Paris  CEVIPOF 24 April 2009.

Last updated on: 13 juil 2015

- Teaching in the Master program at the University of Luxembourg (2010-2013): “Democracy and legitimacy of the European Union” (30 hours)

- Supervision of students in the Master program at the University of Luxembourg (2010-2013) 

- Teaching the module “Paliament and e-democracy” for the National School of Administration (ENA), Paris (2014)

Last updated on: 13 juil 2015

Education

2008: Ph.D. in Social and Political Sciences, European University Institute (Florence, Italy)Promises and Limits of web-deliberation (Supervisor: Peter Wagner, University of Trento.Members of Jury: Alexander Trechsel, European University Institute, Hanspeter Kriesi, University of Zurich, Jürg Steiner, University of Carolina)  

2001: Visiting Scholar at the New York University (NYU), Department of Sociology, New York, United States.

1999: Licence in Political Science (international relations), Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve (grade: grande distinction). 

1998: Erasmus program at the University of Vienna (Austria)

1995: Candidate in Law, Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)

Professional activities

2015 (July)- University of Luxembourg. Department of Political Science (IPSE). Research Associate

2013- : Member of the European Institute for Public Participation (EIPP)

2010- : Secretary of the Luxemburgish Association of Political Science (LUXPOL)

2008-: University of Luxembourg; Department of Political Science (IPSE). Scientific collaborator and teaching for the Master program in European Governance

2005-2007: University of Luxembourg; Department of Political Science (IPSE). Scientific collaborator

2003-2007: Co-founder and member of the EDC (E-Democracy Center, Geneva, Switzerland)

1999-2000: Co-founder of working group, Information Society Observatory, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, Florence, Italy

Reviewer (selection)

- Brazilian political science review

- ECPR press

- European Political Science Review

- Participations

- New Media and Society

- Oxford University Press

- Palgrave

- Science et société

Linguistic skills

French: mother tongue

Italian: mother tongue

English: fluent in speaking and writing

German: speaking and reading

Luxembourgish: speaking and reading

Last updated on: 13 juil 2015

Citations (Google scholar):

http://scholar.google.lu/citations?user=4bIw9ogAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

All: 459

(h) index: 8   

Monograph and edited books

Kies, R. and P. Nanz (eds.), 2014, Les nouvelles voix de l’Europe? Analyses des consultations citoyennes, Editions Larcier/De Boeck.

Kies, R. and P. Nanz (eds.), 2013,Is Europe listening to Us? Successes and Failures of the European Citizen Consultations, Ashgate/Roehampton University Press. (French version ;Les nouvelles voix de l’Europe? Analyses des consultations citoyennes, Editions Larcier, forthcoming. With a foreword by EU Vice-President of the Commission Viviane Reding.

Kies, R., 2010,Promises and Limits of web-deliberation, New York: Palgrave.

Book chapters

Poirier, P. and R., Kies, 2014, « Parlement et finances publiques », in Philippe Poirier (ed.), Les pouvoirs d'un parlement dans les processus décisionnels contemporain. L'exemple de la Chambre des Députés du Luxembourg, Bruxelles : Larcier, pp.466-506.   

Kies, R. 2014, "Parlement et institutions de la protection de droits", in Philippe Poirier (ed.), Les pouvoirs d'un parlement dans les processus décisionnels contemporain. L'exemple de la Chambre des Députés du Luxembourg, Bruxelles: Larcier, pp. 466-506.

Kies R., Dumont P. and P. Poirier, 2014, “European Elections in Luxembourg”, in D. Viola, ed.,The Routledge Handbook of European Elections, London: Routledge.  

Dumont, P. and R. Kies, 2014, “Lussemburgo: Il primo voto solo europeo”, in L. De Sio, V. Emanuele and N. Maggini, Le Elezioni Europee 2014, Dossier CISE n. 6,  pp.245-249.

Dumont P., Kies R., and Fivaz J., 2014, "Being a VAA candidate: Why do candidates use voting advice applications and what can we learn from it?", in Garcia Diego and Marschall Stefan (eds), Matching voters to parties: Voting Advice Applications in a comparative perspective, London: ECPR press, pp. 145-159.   

Dumont, P., Kies, R., and P. Poirier, 2013, “Luxembourg”, in J-M De Waele, F. Escalona, and M. Vieira (eds.),The Palgrave Handbook of Social Democracy in the European Union,New York: Palgrave, pp. 244-268.  

Kies, R. and P. Nanz, 2013, “Citizens’ Deliberation in Europe: An Introduction”, in R. Kies and P. Nanz (eds.),Is Europe listening to Us? Successes and Failures of the European Citizen Consultations, Ashgate/Roehampton University Press, pp. 1-14.

Kies, R., Leyenaar M., and K. Niemöller, 2013, “European Citizens’ Consultation: A large consultation of a vague topic”, in R. Kies and P. Nanz (eds.),Is Europe listening to Us? Successes and Failures of the European Citizen Consultations, Ashgate/Roehampton University Press, pp. 59-78.

Kies Raphaël, 2012, ‘Lessons to be drawn by the Smartvote experience in Luxembourg’,In Agata Dziewulska, Simona Guerra (eds)Voter Empowerment. Warsaw: Centrum Euopejskie Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.

Janssen, D. and R. Kies, 2011, “Online forum and deliberative democracy”, in ed. by Camil Ungureanu, Klaus Günther & Christian Joerges ,Jürgen Habermas, Volumes II, Ashgate/Roehampton University Press.

Dumont, P., Kies, R., and P. Poirier, 2009, “Luxembourg: The challenge of inclusive democracy in a 'local state'’ In John Loughlin, Frank Hendriks and Anders Lidström (eds)Oxford Handbook of Subnational Democracy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 123-145.

Kies, R. and H. Kriesi, 2005, “Internet voting and opinion formation: the potential impact of a pre-voting sphere”, In Trechsel, A. & Mendez, F., eds.,The European Union and e-Voting. Addressing the European Parliament's internet voting challenge. London: Routledge: 147-165.

Kies, R., 2002, « Vote par Internet et formation de l’opinion publique », in A. Auer, T. Koller & A. Trechsel (eds.),E-voting. Actes du colloque Informatique juridique. Bern: Stämpfli. 

Trechsel, A., Mendez, F. and R. Kies, 2002, “Remote voting via the Internet? The Canton of Geneva Pilot Project” in Dimitri Gritzalis (eds.),Secure Electronic Voting, Wien: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 181-194.

Kies, R. and A. Trechsel, 2001, « Le contexte socio-politique », in A. Auer and A. Trechsel (eds.),Voter par Internet?Le projet e-voting dans le canton de Genève dans une perspective socio-politique et juridique, Geneva, Basel, Munich: Helbing & Lichtenhahn Publication, pp. 5-73.

Journal articles

Dumont P. amd Kies R. (forthcoming), « Les Systèmes d’Aide au Vote (SAV): défis et potentialités : introduction », Special Issue “Les Systèmes d’Aide au Vote (SAV): défis et potentialités”, Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée.

Dumont P. and Kies R. (forthcoming), “Etude de la cohésion des partis politique sur base des SAV », Special Issue “Les Systèmes d’Aide au Vote (SAV): défis et potentialités”, Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée.

Dumont, P. and Kies, R. (forthcoming), "Luxembourg", European Journal of Political Research.

Dumont P. and Kies R., 2014, "Luxembourg", European Journal of Political Research, pp. 211-221.

Dumont, P., Kies, R., and P. Poirier, 2013, “Luxembourg”, European Journal of Political Research, 52 (1), pp.152-157

Dumont, P. and Kies, R., 2013, “Political History of Luxembourg”,Western Europe 2013, www.europaworld.com, pp.4-8

Dumont, P. and Kies, R., 2013, “smartvote.lu: Usage and impact of the first VAA in Luxembourg”,International Journal of Electronic Governance 

Dumont, P., Kies, R., and P. Poirier, 2012, “Luxembourg”,European Journal of Political Research51: 200–208, 2012

Dumont, P., Kies, R., and P. Poirier, 2011, “Luxembourg”,European Journal of Political Research,50: 1058–1064, 2011

Dumont, P., Kies, R., and P. Poirier, 2010, “Luxembourg”,European Journal of Political Research, 47 (7-8), pp. 1076-1088.

Kies, R., 2009, « Forum en ligne et partis politiques : Analyse des Radicali italiani »,Réseaux, vol. 26, n. 150, pp. 133-158.

Dumont, P., Kies, R., and P. Poirier, 2009, “Luxembourg”,European Journal of Political Research, pp. 1037-1046.

Dumont, P., Kies, R., and P. Poirier, 2008, “Luxembourg”,European Journal of Political Research, pp. 1060-1070.

Janssen, D. and R. Kies, 2005, “Online forum and deliberative democracy”,Acta Politica, vol.40/3, pp. 317-335.  

Other publications

Kies, R., 2015, “Les consultations citoyennes et les réformes constitutionnelles », Rapport Civilex, Chaire de recherche une étude parlementaire, Université du Luxembourg.

Carpentier-Tanguy, X., Dumont, P., Kies, R., Spreitzer, A., and P. Poirier, 2015 « Les élections législatives de 2013 et les élections européennes de 2014 au Grand-Duché de Luxembourg», Rapport ELECT financé par la chambre des députés au Luxembourg, Luxembourg : Service Central des Imprimés de l’Etat.

Kies R. and S. Wojcik, 2010, “The role of the websites in the ECC 2009”, in M. Leyenaar and K. Niemöller (eds.), European Citizens’ Consultation: Evaluation report, Bruxelles: King Baudouin Fondation.

Kies, R. and S. Wojcik, 2010, “European Web-Deliberation: Lessons from the European Citizens Consultation” in De Cindio F., Macintosh A., Pearboni C. (eds.), From e-Participation to Online Deliberation, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Online Deliberation, OD2010. Leeds, UK, 30 June-2 July, pp. 198-211. http://www.certop.fr/DEL/IMG/pdf_Proceedings_OD2010-2.pdf

Dumont, P., Kies, R., Spreitzer, A., Bozinis, M. and P. Poirier, 2010,Analyse des élections au Luxembourg de Juin 2009, Rapport ELECT financé par la chambre des députés au Luxembourg, Luxembourg : Service Central des Imprimés de l’Etat.

Dumont, P., Kies, R., Fehlen, F. and P Poirier, 2007, “Le référendum du 10 juillet 2005 sur le Traité établissant une Constitution pour l’Europe”, Rapport financé par la chambre des députés au Luxembourg, Luxembourg : Service Central des Imprimés de l’Etat.

Dumont, P., Kies, R., Fehlen, F. and P Poirier, 2006, “Les élections législatives et européennes de 2004 au Grand-Duché de Luxembourg”. Rapport financé par la chambre des députés au Luxembourg, Luxembourg : Service Central des Imprimés de l’Etat.

Kies, R., Mendez, F., Schmitter, P. and Trechsel, A., 2004, “Evaluation of the use of new technologies in order to facilitate democracy in Europe”, Public report for the Scientific and Technological Option Assessment (STOA), European Parliament Directorate-General for Research. European Parliament. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/stoa/publications/studies/stoa116_en.pdf

Trechsel, A., Mendez, F. and R. Kies, 2003, “The European Parliament and the Challenge of Internet Voting”, Policy Paper, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies. http://www.iue.it/RSCAS/WP-Texts/03_03p.pdf

Last updated on: 11 oct 2017