Abel Stankovics
Joined 14 October 2024
EM list member since 2024.
Interested in advocacy. Prefers Condorcet methods for single winner, ranked PR methods (STV, spare vote) for multi winner and PR with approval/rated balloting for participatory budgeting, but might be in the process of getting convinced to embrace the cardinal paradigm in all areas.
Not much notable original works (yet?), some contributions:
- 2024 - Proposed that under some idealized circumstances the desired primary election method is equivalent to Approval voting.
- 2024 - Raised the option of having a type of Two-round Condorcet system (preliminary name ideas: Improved TRS, Condorcet-reinforced TRS, FPP+CW or runoff) as a compromise/transition between paradigms, which can be advocated for especially in countries with TRS, with a pitch that it avoids runoffs more often (when plurality and Condorcet winners are the same) but also to ease concerns about an "illegitimate CW".
- 2024 - Raised so far not investigated problems (as of current knowledge) with two-tier vote transfer systems (particularly plurality rule) that further confirm that such mixed system are not "between winner take all and PR ", but can be outright anti-compensatory even in highly idealized scenarios.
- 2024 - Issued a challenge to the EM list to come up with examples where as many different (single winner) systems lead to different results as possible, simulteneously proposing 2 solutions (one of them with originally with a pairwise mistake) with 9 different results. Later developed an example with 11 different results.
- 2022/2024 - Proposed combining vote linkage with seat linkage to solve the major problems of two-vote seat linkage (MMP) as a "lock-in MMP" / "Robust two-vote MMP" (essentially creating vote splitting option within a single-vote seat linkage system). However, this was previously also independently considered (in more complex forms) by both Jameson Quinn ("modified Bavarian MMP") and Markus Schulze ("Schulze MMP").
- 2021 - Proposed the Mixed Ballot Transferable Vote (MBTV), a purely vote linkage-based mixed system (with many practical limitations).