@green said in What is the optimal electoral mechanism for use _within_ a legislature? E.g. assignment of committee membership, committee leads, general chamber officials, etc:
@lime trying to imagine what PB-VCG would look like practically in this context, given we're electing voters to offices of varying power rather than fulfilling projects with known costs. Each member votes with virtual assets, single offices "priced" and allocated with normal Vickery, set of comparable offices with VCG?
Yes, although not 100% sure what you mean by virtual. If every MP had $1 million in budget to spend (e.g. because we're using something like MES), then you can bid with that budget. Payment involves transferring part of your share to another MP.
Auction order would have a large effect.
I was thinking of a single auction to elect the whole cabinet simultaneously.
Would expect many offices to have multiple all-in bids, which is problematic when they're using equal virtual assets.
Because of collusion, you mean?