There is a relative consensus in the literature around the fact that Latin American Presidents use cabinet appointments as currency to build coalitions, strengthen their government, and get their policy agenda implemented. However these partisan appointees may have their own political incentives that do not align with those of the President. This situation raises the question of how Presidents can ensure that ministers remain faithful agents or at least how to reduce the information asymmetries between Presidents and ministers. One such tool is the strategic redesign of the presidential office. To test this hypothesis, we analyzed 93 organizations established between 1931 and 2015 that constitute the set of agencies under direct control and supervision of the Colombian President. Using time series analysis, we find that the change in the percentage of ministers affiliated to other parties has a positive effect on the number of agencies that constitute the presidential center in Colombia.

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