Presidents rely on their trusted advisers to collect, analyze, coordinate, and present information in a timely fashion. However, Latin American presidents often fail to form majority governments and must use cabinet appointments to secure legislative coalitions to pursue their policies. This article suggests that presidents strategically redesign their executive offices to address the ministry drift. Presidents who can transform the organizations attached to their executive office have additional tools to monitor their ministers’ flexibility. The article argues that the greater the number of ministers in the cabinet from parties different from the president’s, the greater the transformations to the presidential office. Using time-series analysis, hypotheses are tested with an original dataset of organizational changes to the presidential center in Colombia, 1967–2015. The findings indicate that the percentage of ministers from other parties is a good predictor of the transformations undertaken in the executive office of the president.

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机构损失和哥伦比亚总统办公室的战略重新设计

总统依靠他们值得信赖的顾问及时收集、分析、协调和展示信息。然而，拉丁美洲总统经常无法组建多数政府，必须通过内阁任命来确保立法联盟来推行他们的政策。这篇文章建议总统战略性地重新设计他们的行政办公室，以解决部门漂移问题。可以改变附属于其行政办公室的组织的总统有额外的工具来监控他们的部长的灵活性。文章认为，内阁中来自与总统不同党派的部长人数越多，对总统职位的转变就越大。使用时间序列分析，假设使用 1967-2015 年哥伦比亚总统中心组织变化的原始数据集进行测试。调查结果表明，来自其他政党的部长比例可以很好地预测总统行政办公室所进行的转变。