0 not a member of or connected with a group or political party:
a non-partisan organization/voter/watchdog group
Yet, the result is most easily understood if we keep in mind the value to the presidents of non-partisan appointments.
Recall that the theoretical relationship between efficiency concerns and the incidence of non-partisan cabinet appointments is counter-intuitively negative.
Like the premier, the president may assign a distinct value to non-partisan ministers compared to ministers from his own coalition.
At the same time, the frequency of the appointment of non-partisan cabinet members has risen.
Just as we expected, electoral volatility has a strong positive effect on the share of non-partisan cabinet members.
To simplify the model, we assume that the value of non-partisan ministers is the same for the president and the premier.
Semi-presidential regimes seem to feature more non-partisan cabinet ministers than do purely parliamentary systems.
Equation 6 provides the basic comparative statics concerning the proportion of non-partisan ministers proposed by the prime minister in equilibrium.
